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Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by hellbanner »

"Lori Greenberg, his mother, said Monday he had no health problems and she was told by police who investigated Sunday night that there was no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs."

Then.. what the hell happened?

I don't want to play conspiracy too hard here -- could be she's hiding some health issues? but given the recording industry's links with aggressive legislation (TPP, piracy laws), this makes me wonder:

"Several record companies had sued the online music streaming service over copyright violations."

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by VaedaStrike »

Sad. Grooveshark always allowed me to find stuff I had a hard time finding otherwise. Good memories with my son when he was between one and two dancing in our little apartment living room to music from grooveshark. Condolences to family and friends. I don't know him, but he made something that has a part of several really good memories.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

#73

Post by vonklaus »

curiousjorge wrote: post #66
personjerry wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You should pay for whomever's music you enjoy regardless of whether they're an independent artist who needs the money.

get your ass off the high moral ground. I pay whoever I think deserves it.

while this comment is ridiculously ignorant and knee-jerk on the surface almost everyone under 30 subscribes to this even if they don't state it publicly or even believe it themselves.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by roflc0ptic »

jkimmel wrote: post #8

My step-sister dated Josh for a while when I was growing up. My few memories of him consist mostly of Josh explaining technology to me at the dinner table in slow, careful words so that a middle school kid could understand. I remember him laughing with me about the crazy/terrible things I had done to overclock my Android Dev Phone 1 at a time when no one else I knew thought that was interesting. I remember feeling re…

I went to the same high school; he was two years ahead. I didn't know him well, but he was always pleasant. Our high school generated a lot of talented technical types, and the graduating classes remain a pretty small community. My feeling is that the high school reunions just got a little smaller.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by fnordfnordfnord »

DanBC wrote: post #56
raverbashing wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Real life is not a CSI episode, also labs have a limited processing ability But maybe tests are done in stages? Like, if nothing obvious shows up on first tests then some other ones are done?

I don't think anyone is expecting "enhance enhance enhance ah, this person had $SUBSTANCE in their blood", but months does feel a bit long. It'd be interesting to see what the bottlenecks are and how to improve them.

State and local gov't funding level for forensic labs. It costs money to do it correctly, and nobody wants to spend that kind of money, even though we wind up paying more, and imprisoning people wrongly.

http://www.texastribune.org/2013/04/05/commission-looks-misc...

Harris county, Texas just recently got a new one because of similarly disturbing corruption and incompetence.

http://www.harriscountytx.gov/ifs/

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

#77

Post by swombat »

personjerry wrote: post #64
curiousjorge wrote: post #62

Damn, grooveshark was like the best thing since Napster. I was able to rip ton of music from it. I'll never pay for music unless it's an independent artist that needs the money. Taylor Swift can suck it.

You should pay for whomever's music you enjoy regardless of whether they're an independent artist who needs the money.

I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion for this, but who cares...

I think paying money that ends up in the pockets of large record companies who then spend that money to pass laws that break the internet is morally reprehensible. I think buying music in this day and age is immoral. The faster the music industry collapses, the better off we all are. I am sorry if some artists have to pay for this too in some way, but we're all (both audience and artists) better off without the record companies, and step 1 is to stop giving them our money.

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

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Post by jlillyreed »

hellbanner wrote: post #71

"Lori Greenberg, his mother, said Monday he had no health problems and she was told by police who investigated Sunday night that there was no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs." Then.. what the hell happened? I don't want to play conspiracy too hard here -- could be she's hiding some health issues? but given the recording industry's links with aggressive legislation (TPP, piracy laws), this makes me wonder: "S…

take it to reddit

Re: Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

#80

Post by joshuapants »

vonklaus wrote: post #73
curiousjorge wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

get your ass off the high moral ground. I pay whoever I think deserves it.

while this comment is ridiculously ignorant and knee-jerk on the surface almost everyone under 30 subscribes to this even if they don't state it publicly or even believe it themselves.

> almost everyone under 30 subscribes to this

[citation needed]

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