Grooveshark

Grooveshark
Type of site
Music
OwnerEscape Media Group Inc.
Created bySam Tarantino
Josh Greenberg
Andrés Barreto
CommercialYes (freemium)
RegistrationOptional
LaunchedMarch 30, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-03-30)[1]
Closed on April 30, 2015; 9 years ago (2015-04-30)
Current statusDefunct

Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming service owned and operated by Escape Media Group in the United States.[2] Users could upload digital audio files, which could then be streamed and organized in playlists.[3] The Grooveshark website had a search engine, music streaming features, and a music recommendation system.[4]

The company won a major lawsuit filed by Universal Music Group concerning use of Universal's pre-1972 recordings. Grooveshark was also sued for copyright violations by EMI Music Publishing, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group.[5] Concerns about copyrights led Apple and Facebook to remove Grooveshark's applications from the iOS App Store and Facebook Platform respectively.[6] However, Grooveshark was available in alternative app stores, such as Cydia, Google Play and BlackBerry World.[7][8][9][10] It was also a default application on Ubuntu Touch.[11]

On April 30, 2015, Grooveshark abruptly shut down as part of a settlement between the service and Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group.

  1. ^ "Grooveshark.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info – DomainTools". WHOIS. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  2. ^ Lindvall, Helienne (September 9, 2011). "Behind the music: Why Grooveshark takes a bite out of artists' earnings". The Guardian. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  3. ^ "On-Demand Digital Music Service Grooveshark Selects Juniper Networks EX Series Switching Platforms to Build Scalable Cloud-Based Infrastructure and Improve User Experience". Yahoo! Finance. June 14, 2010. Archived from the original on September 28, 2010. Retrieved August 11, 2010.
  4. ^ Shames, Jade (May 13, 2011). "Is Grooveshark the Future of Digital Streaming?: The Secrets of the Popular Streaming Site You're Probably Listening to Right Now". LA Weekly. Archived from the original on October 28, 2014. Retrieved July 22, 2014.
  5. ^ Musil, Steve. "Grooveshark now feels lawsuit wrath of all major music labels: EMI, which had a licensing agreement with the music streaming service, alleged in a breach of contract lawsuit that it had not been paid any royalties". CNET. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  6. ^ "Facebook Breaks Up With Grooveshark (Updated Again) | Evolver.fm". evolver.fm. Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  7. ^ Bishop, Bryan (August 28, 2012). "Official Grooveshark app for Android returns to Play Store". The Verge. Retrieved May 2, 2015. Streaming music service Grooveshark has been under a legal assault from major record labels for quite some time now, but that won't be an impediment for Android users any longer: the official Grooveshark app is once again available in the Google Play Store. As noted by the Wall Street Journal, the return of the app comes less than two months after a judge in New York ruled against Universal's argument that the safe-harbor provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) didn't apply to recordings originating before 1972.
  8. ^ "App For Grooveshark, Keeping The Groove on BlackBerry 10". BerryReview. October 24, 2013. Retrieved May 2, 2015. This morning was an update for App for Grooveshark. a great Built for BlackBerry certified app.
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  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference DMNFacebook was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ "Grooveshark to Be Removed from Ubuntu Touch". Softpedia. May 7, 2015.