+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted May 1, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted May 1, 2015 Grooveshark is dead The writing has been on the wall for controversial music-sharing service Grooveshark for a long time, and now the service is gone for good. In a message posted to the official site, Grooveshark has expressed contrition over the way it conducted its business, says it's settled with major record companies, and recommends users go to other services like Spotify or Beats Music. The company's full statement is below: Dear music fans, Today we are shutting down Grooveshark. We started out nearly ten years ago with the goal of helping fans share and discover music. But despite best of intentions, we made very serious mistakes. We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service. That was wrong. We apologize. Without reservation. As part of a settlement agreement with the major record companies, we have agreed to cease operations immediately, wipe clean all the data on our servers and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights. At that time of our launch, few music services provided the experience we wanted to offer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
game_over Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 $150,000 .. I'd love to know how they got to that for ONE song. This site is really big where I work, there is going to be a lot of disappointed children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Zagadka Subscriber² Posted May 1, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted May 1, 2015 I have growing concern that we put so much of our data and application in "cloud" type systems... like, what will the hell be if/when Valve closes Steam? FilePlanet/D2D collapsed and really screwed the ability to get things you bought in those services. Some like Amazon we see as "too big to fail", but they definitely can, or at least cut services... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_K Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 "As part of a settlement agreement with the major record companies, we have agreed to cease operations immediately, wipe clean all the data on our servers and hand over ownership of this website, our mobile apps and intellectual property, including our patents and copyrights." And that's why the RIAA are (still) complete and utter scum. Dick Montage 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacer Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Well that's lame. I used Grooveshark almost on a daily basis. Now I guess I'll have to suffer Pandora. I can't wait to hear all of those advertisements after every other song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Eternal Tempest MVC Posted May 1, 2015 MVC Share Posted May 1, 2015 I have growing concern that we put so much of our data and application in "cloud" type systems... like, what will the hell be if/when Valve closes Steam? FilePlanet/D2D collapsed and really screwed the ability to get things you bought in those services. Some like Amazon we see as "too big to fail", but they definitely can, or at least cut services... One reason I check gog.com before going to steam for a game, I can download, make a permanent offline copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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