After nearly 8 years of operation (6 years to face prosecution), the popular online music service Grooveshark will close its doors . A sad news in this holiday.
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The company posted a message on its website, providing excuses for his inability to "get license holders, due to the large amount of music released on the service".
While most online music services such as public Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody, and Google are working on the agreement with the major labels before putting online music, Grooveshark. On this service, the business model was to upload music before asking permission later to different labels. In other words, the critics fell on the service.
Since Grooveshark has allowed users to download music, the company offered a huge library of content that you can use through its website or mobile applications. But since the company has not really been allowed to dispose of this music, and it has always had to face trial - sued by Universal, EMI, Sony or Warner.
Final today
The company says it has reached an agreement that involves an immediate stop , erasing all the music hosted on the service and giving ownership of the site, mobile applications, and patent and copyright labels.
It's a shame, because honestly Grooveshark was one of the most complete catalogs, and the simplest tools for music streaming. Chances are if you were looking for a song, you could find and read it on Grooveshark. Now I suppose you'll have to use YouTube.
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The company posted a message on its website, providing excuses for his inability to "get license holders, due to the large amount of music released on the service".
While most online music services such as public Pandora, Spotify, Rhapsody, and Google are working on the agreement with the major labels before putting online music, Grooveshark. On this service, the business model was to upload music before asking permission later to different labels. In other words, the critics fell on the service.
Final today
The company says it has reached an agreement that involves an immediate stop , erasing all the music hosted on the service and giving ownership of the site, mobile applications, and patent and copyright labels.
It's a shame, because honestly Grooveshark was one of the most complete catalogs, and the simplest tools for music streaming. Chances are if you were looking for a song, you could find and read it on Grooveshark. Now I suppose you'll have to use YouTube.