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| Grooveshark : Greenberg Dead |
The news of Greenberg’s passing was first broken by the Gainesville Sun, which reports it was the entrepreneur’s girlfriend that found his body yesterday. According to the paper, which spoke to Greenberg’s mother, Lori, her son “had no health problems”, and that at this time, drugs are not considered a factor. A tweet from the Gainesville Police Department has also stated that there is no evidence of foul play or suicide.
The company that Greenberg founded with his business partner Sam Tarantino back in 2006 was forced to close just a few months ago after years of legal debates with the biggest record labels in the world.
The service was being sued for thousands of counts of copyright infringement, as it allowed anybody to listen to essentially any song they wanted to entirely for free, and unlike fellow streaming sites like Spotify, Pandora , or the several dozen other options, Grooveshark didn’t pay royalties.
The technicality that kept the company alive for so long was that it wasn’t actually Grooveshark that stored any of the music being played. Like YouTube, anybody could upload whatever they wanted, and users could listen for free.
Eventually Greenberg and Tarantino had to settle, and the site closed immediately.
Since Grooveshark was forced to close earlier this year, there have been many fans that have tried to keep the service alive through replications and copycats.
Less than a month after the original company disappeared, some former employees of the service opened an almost identical platform with the same name. Grooveshark.io didn’t last nearly as long, and it has already disappeared.
Since then, the labels that won in court are demanding that no party be allowed to use the name Grooveshark, which is trademarked. That trademark was handed over to the record labels as part of the settlement.
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