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Grooveshark: Universal lawsuit claims are blatantly false

article published on 24 November, 2011

Universal Music Group seeking over $17 billion in damages. The music industry giant claims that Grooveshark employees uploaded more than 100,000 pirated songs to the website. It alleges that even the chief executive, Samuel Tarantino, uploaded 1,791 pirated songs at least, while Nikola Arabadjiev, head of quality assurance efforts, allegedly uploaded over 40,000 songs. Universal is ... [ read the full article ]

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dp70
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_ 		25. November 2011 @ 07:40 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It seems these alleged illegal up-downloads have done more civil damages than the value of their entire music catalogue. Could this be a combination of new speak and new math ?
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djgizmo
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_ 		27. November 2011 @ 22:05 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've met people who work at Grooveshark (During a start-up weekend convention in Tampa) back in August.

While I doubt that the CEO would purposely try to rip artist's off. However, I did question the profitability of the company vs Pandora and they said they did it with 'custom players' and mobile subscriptions. Somehow, I just don't believe that.
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KillerBug
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_ 		27. November 2011 @ 22:38 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Grooveshark is the worst nightmare of the music industry...easy to use music available anywhere for free, with no danger to the users. Of course they are going to try to do whatever they can to shut them down. Even if the tracks are not pirated, they are still not licensed for this use.

BTW...today grooveshark got me to buy three CDs that I otherwise wouldn't have bought...so even if it is piracy, it is benefiting the music industry.
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