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Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by whichfawkes »

Does anyone have a good sense for how hard it would be to operate a service like this in a vaguely legal way?

I understand that Grooveshark's own employees were instructed to download music and upload it to Grooveshark. If this had not been the case, or if they could not prove that this was the case, would their service be technically legal (safe harbor laws,etc)?

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by mikegioia »

whichfawkes wrote: post #2

Does anyone have a good sense for how hard it would be to operate a service like this in a vaguely legal way? I understand that Grooveshark's own employees were instructed to download music and upload it to Grooveshark. If this had not been the case, or if they could not prove that this was the case, would their service be technically legal (safe harbor laws,etc)?

It must be, it's no different than youtube in that regard. This is a sad, sad day. I can't believe it.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by sethbannon »

"As a part of a settlement agreement with the major record companies, we have agreed to cease operations immediately, wipe clean all of the record companies' copyrighted works and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights."

Ouch. Sounds harsh. Wonder if they had to turn over the user data as well...

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by adamwong246 »

whichfawkes wrote: post #2

Does anyone have a good sense for how hard it would be to operate a service like this in a vaguely legal way? I understand that Grooveshark's own employees were instructed to download music and upload it to Grooveshark. If this had not been the case, or if they could not prove that this was the case, would their service be technically legal (safe harbor laws,etc)?

You'd have thought they'ed be smarter than that. They go to all this trouble to get around the DMCA and then they get busted because they told the employees to upload music, from work computers no less.

Re: Grooveshark Shuts Down

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Post by Vekz »

adamwong246 wrote: post #6

bummer. There goes allll my playlists.

Same here. I've kind of dreaded this day and thought why is there no standardized 'playlist protocol' or playlist format that music services could share. This is like the 4th time I've had an old music service shut down and lost all my playlists with no migration path.
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