This was the chronicle of a death foretold. Grooveshark, the service in which millions of users shared their music freely and for free has ended up closing its doors. The reason has been none other than the piece of complaint filed by the most important record companies for a value of nothing more and nothing less than 17.000 million dollars. Considering that Grooveshark started out as an idea of three students, seeing the amount of $ 17.000 billion is enough to make anyone tremble.
Grooveshark has ceased their service with a message in which they acknowledge having passed the licenses and other mandatory requirements for the market through the depths of the lining: “We started about 10 years ago with the goal of helping fans share and discover music. But despite our best intentions, we made several mistakes. We have not licensed much of the music on the service. This has been wrong. We apologize. Without reservations. As part of our agreement with the large companies, we have decided to cease all operations immediately ". Once the Mea Culpa has been sung, Grooveshark invites true music lovers to use services such as Deezer, Spotify, Google Play… etc: “If you love music and respect artists and authors, use a service with licenses that compensate the artists ”.
But four days after its closure, Grooveshark became a Jesus Christ and reappeared on the Internet, this time with a new domain, some limitations for the user but none for the artist, who will still not see a penny of this resurrected service. This topic is sure to provide much more news. I will be aware. Did you use Grooveshark?