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(prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><caption class="infobox-title fn org">Grooveshark</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg/220px-Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="33" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg/330px-Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg/440px-Grooveshark_logo_horizontal.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1648" data-file-height="250" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Type of site</div></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Music" title="Music">Music</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Owner</th><td class="infobox-data">Escape Media Group Inc.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Sam Tarantino</li><li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Greenberg" title="Josh Greenberg">Josh Greenberg</a></li><li>Andrés Barreto</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Commercial</th><td class="infobox-data">Yes (<a href="/wiki/Freemium" title="Freemium">freemium</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Registration</th><td class="infobox-data">Optional</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Launched</th><td class="infobox-data">March 30, 2006<span class="noprint">; 18 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2006-03-30</span>)</span><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br /> Closed on April 30, 2015<span class="noprint">; 9 years ago</span><span style="display: none;"> (<span class="dtend">2015-4-30</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Current status</th><td class="infobox-data category">Defunct</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Grooveshark</b> was a web-based <a href="/wiki/Music_streaming_service" title="Music streaming service">music streaming service</a> owned and operated by Escape Media Group in the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Users could upload <a href="/wiki/Digital_audio" title="Digital audio">digital audio</a> files, which could then be streamed and organized in <a href="/wiki/Playlist" title="Playlist">playlists</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Grooveshark website had a <a href="/wiki/Search_engine" title="Search engine">search engine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Music_streaming" class="mw-redirect" title="Music streaming">music streaming</a> features, and a music recommendation system.<sup id="cite_ref-LAWeekly_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LAWeekly-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company won a major lawsuit filed by <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> concerning use of Universal's pre-1972 recordings. Grooveshark was also sued for <a href="/wiki/Copyright" title="Copyright">copyright</a> violations by <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI Music Publishing</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sony_Music" title="Sony Music">Sony Music Entertainment</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Music Group</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNET_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNET-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Concerns about copyrights led <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> and <a href="/wiki/Meta_Platforms" title="Meta Platforms">Facebook</a> to remove Grooveshark's applications from the <a href="/wiki/App_Store_(Apple)" title="App Store (Apple)">iOS App Store</a> and <a href="/wiki/Facebook_Platform" title="Facebook Platform">Facebook Platform</a> respectively.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, Grooveshark was available in alternative app stores, such as <a href="/wiki/Cydia" title="Cydia">Cydia</a>, <a href="/wiki/Google_Play" title="Google Play">Google Play</a> and <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry_World" title="BlackBerry World">BlackBerry World</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Apple_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apple-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DMNFacebook_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMNFacebook-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was also a default application on <a href="/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch" title="Ubuntu Touch">Ubuntu Touch</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ubuntuphone_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ubuntuphone-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On April 30, 2015, Grooveshark abruptly shut down as part of a settlement between the service and <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sony_Music_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Music Entertainment">Sony Music Entertainment</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Music Group</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pre-release_(2006–2009)"><span id="Pre-release_.282006.E2.80.932009.29"></span>Pre-release (2006–2009)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Pre-release (2006–2009)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grooveshark was a service of Escape Media Group Inc. (EMG), based in <a href="/wiki/Gainesville,_Florida" title="Gainesville, Florida">Gainesville, Florida</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with additional offices located in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was founded in March 2006 by three <a href="/wiki/Undergraduates" class="mw-redirect" title="Undergraduates">undergraduates</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Florida" title="University of Florida">University of Florida</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-startupsopensourced.com_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-startupsopensourced.com-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Andrés Barreto, <a href="/wiki/Josh_Greenberg" title="Josh Greenberg">Josh Greenberg</a> and Sam Tarantino<sup id="cite_ref-Barreto_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Barreto-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (who became <a href="/wiki/CEO" class="mw-redirect" title="CEO">CEO</a>). During its first two years, Grooveshark functioned as a paid downloadable music service,<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with its content sourced from its proprietary <a href="/wiki/Peer-to-peer" title="Peer-to-peer">peer-to-peer</a> (P2P) network, which required users to install its "Sharkbyte" application. Grooveshark stated that it paid users who uploaded a transacted song a portion of the accounting costs for the song. Grooveshark positioned itself as a legal competitor to other popular P2P networks such as <a href="/wiki/LimeWire" title="LimeWire">LimeWire</a>, although questions about its legality arose from the beginning.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grooveshark entered beta in September 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-Startups_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Startups-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the beta, users bought and sold tracks among themselves for 99 cents.<sup id="cite_ref-VB_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Around 70 cents went to the record label, 25 cents to the user selling the track, and 4 cents to Grooveshark. Grooveshark's model had been approved by various small record labels, but not by any of the major record companies.<sup id="cite_ref-VB_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VB-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Flash_web_player_(2008–2012)"><span id="Flash_web_player_.282008.E2.80.932012.29"></span>Flash web player (2008–2012)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Flash web player (2008–2012)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 15, 2008, the service launched its web service, enabling users to click and play songs on the site without having to download an application.<sup id="cite_ref-startupsopensourced.com_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-startupsopensourced.com-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The new web service was a <a href="/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player" title="Adobe Flash Player">Flash</a> media player called "Grooveshark Lite",<sup id="cite_ref-Paste_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paste-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and added a feature for autoplaying recommended songs.<sup id="cite_ref-Inquisitr_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Inquisitr-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The service rose in popularity, with founders Greenberg and Tarantino named 2008 finalists for <i><a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_Businessweek" title="Bloomberg Businessweek">Bloomberg Businessweek</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> list of "America's Best Young Entrepreneurs".<sup id="cite_ref-Bloomberg_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2009, Grooveshark had secured almost $1 million in seed funding.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 2009, Grooveshark launched its artist platform called Grooveshark Artists,<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which served as an analytics service for artists whose music was streamed on the site.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On October 27, 2009, Grooveshark revised its <a href="/wiki/User_interface" title="User interface">interface</a>, which featured skipping to any point in a song,<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> left-hand navigation, customizable site themes, and drag-and-drop editing of playlists.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 2, 2010, the site's interface was rewritten for <a href="/wiki/HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a>. Another update occurred in October 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 18, 2012, Grooveshark removed service in <a href="/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, stating that it closed due to the costs of licensing.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 21, 2011, Grooveshark was a <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> Awards 2011 Finalist in the Best Music Service or App category.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On December 19, 2011, Grooveshark co-founders Sam Tarantino and Josh Greenberg were listed among the <i>Forbes</i> 30 Under 30 in Music.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="HTML5_web_player_(2012–2015)"><span id="HTML5_web_player_.282012.E2.80.932015.29"></span>HTML5 web player (2012–2015)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: HTML5 web player (2012–2015)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On August 28, 2012, Google Play restored Grooveshark's app.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On September 5, 2012, Grooveshark presented its full HTML5 player, effectively nullifying Google's and Apple's decisions to make the service unavailable to mobile apps.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 12, 2013, executive Eddy Vasquez was murdered.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, Cydia repositories iHackStore, BigBoss Repo, c0caine, and all others brought back the Grooveshark app for the iPhone with the ability to download songs and import them directly to the music app within the Grooveshark app.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From July 2014, Grooveshark announced that it would accept <a href="/wiki/Bitcoin" title="Bitcoin">Bitcoin</a> as a form of payment via <a href="/wiki/Stripe_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Stripe (company)">Stripe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Shutdown_(2015)"><span id="Shutdown_.282015.29"></span>Shutdown (2015)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Shutdown (2015)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On April 30, 2015, it was announced that, as part of a settlement of the copyright infringement lawsuits between the service and <a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sony_Music_Entertainment" class="mw-redirect" title="Sony Music Entertainment">Sony Music Entertainment</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Warner_Music_Group" title="Warner Music Group">Warner Music Group</a>, Grooveshark would be shut down immediately. Furthermore, the ownership of the Grooveshark service, website, and all of its associated intellectual property would be transferred to the labels. The Grooveshark website was replaced with a message announcing the closure, and pointed users towards licensed music streaming services. The move came after it was disclosed that the company could have been liable for up to $736 million in damages if it were determined that the website's infringement of copyrights was willful.<sup id="cite_ref-recode-shutdown_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-recode-shutdown-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nyt-gsshutdown_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nyt-gsshutdown-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Shortly after the shutdown, a new Grooveshark-branded website surfaced under a different <a href="/wiki/Top-level_domain" title="Top-level domain">top-level domain</a>, offering a basic MP3 search engine that claimed to use the site's previous library of music, and promising to restore much of its original functionality. Although the site's anonymous creator claimed to have had a prior "connection" to the site and promised future development, it was later found that the "new" Grooveshark was simply a re-branded version of an existing MP3 search engine.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the labels were granted a temporary restraining order, the clone's domain name was seized, although the site quickly re-appeared on a new domain.<sup id="cite_ref-ars-ioseized_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ars-ioseized-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Tools have been created for retrieving Grooveshark playlists, such as playlist.fish, Audiosplitter and StreamSquid.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On July 19, 2015, Grooveshark co-founder <a href="/wiki/Josh_Greenberg" title="Josh Greenberg">Josh Greenberg</a> died in his home at the age of 28 of undetermined causes.<sup id="cite_ref-groovesharkfounderdead_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-groovesharkfounderdead-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grooveshark was a <a href="/wiki/Rich_Internet_application" class="mw-redirect" title="Rich Internet application">rich Internet application</a> that originally ran in Adobe Flash. In December 2010, Grooveshark redesigned its site to provide an <a href="/wiki/HTML5" title="HTML5">HTML5</a> interface.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grooveshark displayed songs, playlists, and users. Grooveshark had a <a href="/wiki/Java_Web_Start" title="Java Web Start">Java Web Start</a> application that scanned user folders for <a href="/wiki/MP3" title="MP3">MP3s</a>, uploading and adding them to the user's online library. The <a href="/wiki/ID3" title="ID3">ID3</a> information of the uploaded song was linked to the user, and the file would be uploaded to Grooveshark, which then would offer <a href="/wiki/Video_on_demand" title="Video on demand">on-demand</a> music playback. All content on the service was <a href="/wiki/Crowdsourcing" title="Crowdsourcing">user-sourced</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010 <i><a href="/wiki/Time_(magazine)" title="Time (magazine)">Time</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'s</span> on-line supplement had listed Grooveshark among its 50 Best Websites.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Grooveshark streamed over 1 billion sound files per month, contained over 15 million songs, and had 20 million users.<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Users could search and find music by song, artist, album, browsing friends' recent activity, and even through other users' playlists. The service allowed users to create and edit playlists. Registered users could save playlists to an account, subscribe to other users' playlists, and share them through e-mail, social media, StumbleUpon, Reddit, or an embeddable widget. Users could listen to radio stations of particular genres or populate their own station via their list of songs. The site would use the song list to stream similar music, and this stream selection would update using user ratings of songs. Grooveshark featured a "Community" section, where users could view the activity of friends by "following" them. Users could also connect other social media accounts. </p><p>Users could obtain basic accounts without fees.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grooveshark offered two subscription services that gave users increased features, no banner ads, and playability on mobile devices.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Critical_reception">Critical reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Critical reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2013, <i><a href="/wiki/Entertainment_Weekly" title="Entertainment Weekly">Entertainment Weekly</a></i> compared a number of music services and granted Grooveshark a "B", rating, "Users upload libraries onto cloud servers, which means fewer catalog holes. But there's only an Android app, and the Web interface can get sluggish."<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Copyright_issues">Copyright issues</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Copyright issues"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>CEO Sam Tarantino stated that the company strictly follows the <a href="/wiki/Notice_and_take_down" title="Notice and take down">takedown</a> procedures of the US's <a href="/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act" title="Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act">Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act</a>, stating that usually Grooveshark expeditiously removes content.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, representatives of the music labels argued that songs that are taken down due to infringement claims often reappear almost immediately.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT14Dec11_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT14Dec11-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Due to copyright concerns and pressure from record labels, many third party companies distanced themselves from Grooveshark. <a href="/wiki/Apple_Inc." title="Apple Inc.">Apple</a> pulled the Grooveshark app for <a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a> from <a href="/wiki/App_Store_(iOS)" class="mw-redirect" title="App Store (iOS)">App Store</a> on August 16, 2010, shortly after its release in response to a complaint from Universal.<sup id="cite_ref-Apple_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Apple-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On April 1, 2011, the Grooveshark application was pulled from the Android Market.<sup id="cite_ref-Android_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Android-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2012, <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a> removed Grooveshark "due to a copyright infringement complaint".<sup id="cite_ref-DMNFacebook_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMNFacebook-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of April 2013 <a href="/wiki/Google_Search" title="Google Search">Google Search</a> started censoring the term "grooveshark" from its autocomplete feature.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2012, the <a href="/wiki/British_Phonographic_Industry" title="British Phonographic Industry">British Phonographic Industry</a> engaged <a href="/wiki/Phonographic_Performance_Limited" title="Phonographic Performance Limited">Phonographic Performance Limited</a> regarding Grooveshark's licensing, and as of November 2013, was attempting to have all United Kingdom <a href="/wiki/Internet_service_provider" title="Internet service provider">ISPs</a> block the website.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Universal_Music_Group">Universal Music Group</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Universal Music Group"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The interface of Grooveshark (on July 17, 2012)." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png/220px-Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="121" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/23/Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png/330px-Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/23/Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png 2x" data-file-width="425" data-file-height="234" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Robert_Fripp" title="Robert Fripp">Robert Fripp</a> claimed Grooveshark continued to distribute his music, after repeated takedown notices and other complaints.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DMN_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DMN-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His exchange was included in Universal's suit, filed in November 2011, against Grooveshark.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT14Dec11_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT14Dec11-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Sandoval_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sandoval-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" title="Universal Music Group">Universal Music Group</a> filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Grooveshark on January 6, 2010, alleging that Grooveshark maintained on its servers illegal copies of Universal's pre-1972 catalog.<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In July 2012, New York State Supreme Court Judge Barbara Kapnick ruled that pre-1972 recordings were covered by the "<a href="/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act#Title_II:_Online_Copyright_Infringement_Liability_Limitation_Act" title="Digital Millennium Copyright Act">safe harbor</a>" provision of the <a href="/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act" title="Digital Millennium Copyright Act">Digital Millennium Copyright Act</a><sup id="cite_ref-foxnews.com_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-foxnews.com-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-forbes.com_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-forbes.com-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In April 2013, the New York State Supreme Court of Appeals reversed the decision, saying that pre-1972 licenses are not covered by the DMCA.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In November 2011, Universal Music Group brought an additional lawsuit against Grooveshark for more than $15 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-Time2011_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time2011-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> UMG cited internal documents revealing that Grooveshark employees uploaded thousands of illegal copies of UMG-owned recordings.<sup id="cite_ref-Sandoval_65-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sandoval-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Six individuals were named as personally having uploaded between 1,000 and 40,000 songs each; other employees had uploaded 43,000 songs, according to page eight of the complaint. For each of the 113,777 alleged uploadings, a penalty of $150,000 was requested by Universal, amounting to an estimated $17.1 billion.<sup id="cite_ref-Time2011_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time2011-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Billion17_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Billion17-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Grooveshark denied all the complaints, complaining there was a "gross mischaracterisation" of the documents obtained during the <a href="/wiki/Discovery_(law)" title="Discovery (law)">lawsuit's discovery phase</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Billion17_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Billion17-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2014, the case was decided in favor of the record companies, with damages not yet determined.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another major label, <a href="/wiki/EMI" title="EMI">EMI</a>, had also signed a license agreement for streaming music with Grooveshark in 2009 after settling a previous copyright lawsuit.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, on January 5, 2012, EMI sued Grooveshark over non-payment of royalties<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> stating in their complaint that Grooveshark failed to provide "a single accounting statement".<sup id="cite_ref-Time2012_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time2012-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As a result, EMI dropped its licensing agreement with Grooveshark.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Much of EMI is now owned by Universal Music Group. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Independent_labels">Independent labels</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Independent labels"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Grooveshark had licensing deals with a number of independent record labels,<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as <a href="/wiki/Sun_Records" title="Sun Records">Sun Records</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Grooveshark&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_social_networking_services" title="List of social networking services">List of social networking services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Internet_radio_stations" title="List of Internet radio stations">List of Internet radio stations</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_online_music_databases" title="List of online music databases">List of online music databases</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Streaming_media" title="Streaming media">Streaming 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