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Grooveshark faces lawsuit from EMI
I can see why a label would want to sue Grooveshark. According to one small label that's done business with them, Grooveshark just uses the labels' content to pay its bills, and offers little to nothing in advertising revenue in return. On the other hand, I don't know too many people who use Grooveshark as a replacement for buying a legitimate digital download of a song. You need to be online to listen, and you can't put streaming tracks on your iPod, so it hardly seems like an equivalent product.
I selfishly hope Grooveshark survives this lawsuit, because I enjoy being able to preview full tracks before I buy them. I also enjoy sharing music with my friends by embedding Grooveshark widgets or using the Facebook plugin, and maybe those friends will hear something they like and go buy an album. If I were the music industry right now, I might take those sales where I could get them.
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ntw1103 said 8:49PM on 6-18-2009
This is saddening. I really like grooveshark. I use it all the time when I have a song pop into my head but I can't remember exactly what it is. it is easy to search online for parts of the lyrics and find a song name, but to be able to listen to it and confirm it is really cool.
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Scott said 6:58AM on 6-19-2009
Have you tried Spotify? It's brilliant and I almost never use itunes anymore.
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Mike said 7:18PM on 8-03-2009
want to give an invite?
kingkool68 said 11:39AM on 6-19-2009
Here, here Grooveshark! Just like the hey-day of Napster. I've got some songs on my computer that aren't part of the service. I think I'll upload them in a bit calmer times.
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