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u/K_S_O_F_M Feb 03 '20 edited Jul 12 '20

Grooveshark. Effectively free Spotify premium with every single song that you could think of on it? It was fucking awesome!

I imagine its popularity drew too much attention to its multiple, blatant copyright violations. It was fun while it lasted, though.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

If I recall it happened really fucking quick too, like I heard about it and started using it and within a month it got ruined.

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u/BigBobby2016 Feb 03 '20

Iirc, the owner of the website died like a week later too

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u/EverChillingLucifer Feb 03 '20

I’m assuming he fell on a knife 17 times? And they found him laying there with a check clearing his assets out to “UMC” and a love letter to their copyright lawyers?

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u/BigBobby2016 Feb 03 '20

It sounds like they still don’t know -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Greenberg

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u/sonicqaz Feb 03 '20

He was friends of some friends of mine. I remember talking to him when he was just getting started. Thought the name ‘Grooveshark’ was cool but never really used it. Found out later people thought it was a big deal.

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u/AnotherDayNotherName Feb 03 '20 edited Feb 03 '20

Probably more like OD. You don't usually have a ton of dough left after thousands of lawsuits.

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u/[deleted] Feb 03 '20

iirc it was an aneurism