it was literally the same exact business model as youtube. the big four labels were suing youtube at the same time for the same reason as grooveshark. then google bought youtube and they “settled” - grooveshark got sued into oblivion and took a dear friend from me (suicide)
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Rebels_Droppin@lemmy.world 1 day agoOh wow! I used to use grooveshark as a kid but my mom thought it was a piracy site and didn’t let me use it on her laptop. Haven’t thought about that site in a while, thanks for your work!
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
paraphrand@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It was at least in part a piracy site. Everything was uploaded by users. It was a piracy site in the sense that early music on YouTube was mostly users uploading too. This also often meant the audio compression was random, and sometimes terrible. And on YouTube it was terrible 2006-2010 or so.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world 1 day ago
spot on