Streaming Music Service Grooveshark Sued Again
Streaming Music Service Grooveshark Sued Again
Posted 01/12/2010 at 7:57am
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Grooveshark is quite a predatory name for a music streaming service constantly under threat from record labels. The new year has gotten off to a woeful start for the music service, based entirely on user-uploaded content, with Universal Music Group dragging it to court over the presence of unauthorized copies of its content on Grooveshark. The fresh lawsuit comes barely three months after it resolved its legal dispute with EMI by agreeing to a licensing deal. In a filing with a New York State Court, UMG alleged that Grooveshark hosts unlicensed content from its pre-1972 catalog. The label also slammed Grooveshark for its refusal to deploy copyright filtering software, alleging that it has based its business solely on copyright infringement.
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dethdeks
January 12, 2010 at 1:14pm
iv used grooveshark a few times and from what i saw they arnt trying to sell you or allow you to download any of the music only let you listen to it like an online radio station. if anything the record labels and recording artists should be pleased that theres sites like this up so that people that are less fortanute who cant afford to spring the 20-40-50 bucks for a album are still wanting to listen to that band/group/artist if it was my music they were listening to i would be like sweet free advertising and promoting who cares as long as people get to hear it.
Biceps
January 12, 2010 at 1:19pm
Pandora does the same thing, but pays royalties to the record companies and artists. It looks to me like Grooveshark's business model is based in avoiding those fees, which is illegal. Just because you can't download the songs doesn't mean this business model isn't stealing. I won't be using Grooveshark.
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