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Grooveshark Resurrected Out of US Jurisdiction

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-for-another-listen dept.

New submitter khoonirobo writes: Less than a week after music streaming service Grooveshark was shut down, it seems to have been brought back to life by an unknown person "connected to the original grooveshark" according to this BGR report. Seemingly, the plan is to get away with it by registering and hosting it outside of U.S. jurisdiction. From the article: "It’s still in the early stages of development, but the team hopes to reproduce the old Grooveshark UI in its entirety, including playlists and favorites."

29 comments

  1. no it isn't by blackest_k · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Seems its just a search engine rebranded to look like grooveshark

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    1. Re:no it isn't by deesine · · Score: 1

      Ya, no accounts yet. I want my playlists. $9/month and no playlists. This has been a bad week.

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    2. Re:no it isn't by bobbied · · Score: 1

      It's a work in progress.... Wonder how long they think they can get away with it once they start infringing in earnest...

      It will just turn into more fodder for the RIAA's legal team....

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    3. Re:no it isn't by rudy_wayne · · Score: 1

      It's a work in progress.... Wonder how long they think they can get away with it once they start infringing in earnest...

      It will just turn into more fodder for the RIAA's legal team....

      Yes. They are going to learn very quickly that there is no such thing as "outside of U.S. jurisdiction".

    4. Re:no it isn't by Harlequin80 · · Score: 3, Informative

      It's a clone of MP3Juices. Grooveshark is gone. Not to mention they signed their trademarks over to the RIAA so this will go offline at a domain level in no time.

    5. Re:no it isn't by gstoddart · · Score: 1

      Yes. They are going to learn very quickly that there is no such thing as "outside of U.S. jurisdiction".

      Of course not, the US government has become the enforcement arm for the multinational copyright cartels.

      Which is why industry groups write the text of trade agreements and then tell the US government to go implement it and pressure other countries to adopt it.

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  2. Lies by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the article:

    "UPDATE: As several people have pointed out since this post originally ran, Grooveshark.io appears to be little more than a clone (or a skin) of an “MP3 search engine” called MP3Juices.se, which I only recommend visiting if you’re a big fan of ads (and crappy UI). The copyright pages are identical, the privacy policies are identical and, most importantly, the catalogs of available MP3s are identical. (Thanks to Ryan and David for bringing this to my attention.)

    Whether or not “Shark” and his team have bigger plans for the domain in the future remains to be seen, but based on these recent revelations, it’s hard not to see this as a group of clever programmers riding the wave of a big news story."

    So it's bogus.

  3. Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Already working on my own streaming system that I'm just going to keep private, never share, and only use with friends and family. On the 30th grooveshark shutdown, on the 1st I already had downloaded 90gigs and counting of music that I was listening to on grooveshark. For every artist I could think of I grabbed the discography download and by the 3rd I had grabbed around 200 gigs and had everything I lost plus more.

    Now I'm working on a client/server app in C++ using protocol buffers for network communication and gstreamer for decoding the music. I'm going to host all this music on the server and provide everyone I hold close a nice alternative to putting up with this bullshit any more.

    First I was on Imeem... then I lost all my playlists when it turned into myspace music. (Fool me once)
    Then I was on grooveshark and then I lost all my playlists when it got shutdown (Fool me twice...)

    Yeah, I'm not getting fooled again assholes. I was happy to view ads on grooveshark and more importantly, control what song I wanted to listen to and when. No radio + skip bullcrap that people *pay* for. No no no.

    Thanks to you guys I'm pirating like a mofo now and simply don't care anymore. I'm hosting all my stuff, putting up my own walled secret application and simply not making anything public so we aren't dealing with this kind of crap after amassing a nice playlist over a few years. I'm SICK of losing it.

    Thank god I'm a software engineer with over 10 years in the business using C/C++. Piece of cake to create something that scratches me and my families musical itch, you just pissed off the wrong person.

    1. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1

      Make sure to share the software when you're done :)

      Personally, I've been hosting my own private collection for years, thanks to NAS and a VPN.

      As an alternative, amazingly, Apple seems to "get it" here with their $25/year Match program too -- anything you sync through their service comes with full service, no ads, and you sync the music and playlists to your devices, so if ITS and Match ever vanish, you've still got everything. Google seems to be catching on as well, but they still want you to put everything on their servers for the most part (but make it really convenient to do so).

    2. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm with you, the RIAA can choke to death on a giant bag of dicks. They do nothing absolutely useful. Someone ought to replace their cocaine with powdered glass with lots of jagged bits mixed in.

    3. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Seems that Ampache could make a comeback

    4. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by gstoddart · · Score: 1

      Or, alternately ... why would I rely on someone else in the first place? Why would I waste time and bandwidth copying my files around the internet?

      I'm probably in the minority, but I still buy CDs, rip them to MP3, and then put them on whatever the hell I like.

      I don't have ads either. I also don't have DRM, annual fees, or any of the other crap associated with keeping my stuff in the cloud.

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    5. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All jokes aside, this is pretty much exactly what I did.

        - got my collection list from a thankfully still open grooveshark page
        - pretty much every track was in my collection because I liked it, and didn't already have a copy
        - hmmm, I need to download these now....off to WCD
        - two days and about 300 downloads later, I have all but the most obscure stuff downloaded
        - of course, to repair my newly trashed ratio I'll be seeding all of it for a very very very long time

      Bottom line: shutting down grooveshark has lead to a MASSIVE increase in the amount of music that I'm actively "pirating" so EAT SHIT AND DIE UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP, I HOPE AND PRAY FOR YOUR FAILURE AND BANKRUPTCY

    6. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      First of all, doesn't the world have enough of streaming servers already?
      And second, why C++?

    7. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by wonkey_monkey · · Score: 1

      Already working on my own streaming system

      With blackjack? And hookers?

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    8. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      All your music ... You can store up to 25,000 songs in iCloud ... Well, they're 1/2 right (50,460 tracks & counting)

    9. Re:Let them shut it down, I'm done... by Em+Adespoton · · Score: 1

      Personally, I've been hosting my own private collection for years, thanks to NAS and a VPN.

      As an alternative....

      Your alternative to my alternative appears very similar to what I stated :D

  4. Honeypot or Russian crimeware pharming campaign by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Danger be ahead, matey!

  5. The Internet interprets censorship as damage, and by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    routes around it.

  6. Everyone has the DMCA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    They just call it something else. The DMCA is just the US law that implements the international copyright agreements that most every nation that is worth a dime respects and has as laws on their books.

  7. Malware warning by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It's also noteworthy that a few other places have found it to be infested with malware

  8. Come on slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    https://torrentfreak.com/resurrected-grooveshark-is-actually-an-mp3juices-clone-150506/

    A third rate site like torrentfreak saw through this ruse in about 30 seconds.

  9. Grooveshark Resurrected on Proxima Centauri? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    > Grooveshark Resurrected Out of US Jurisdiction

    That plan worked so well for Mega or UBL... Assessed objectively, probably only Russia and maybe China are out of US jurisdiction. Everywhere else, the USA can do as they please, including visits in the middle of the night.

    1. Re:Grooveshark Resurrected on Proxima Centauri? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      This isn't the original reason I obtained a 10-year Chinese visa, but it's a nice bonus. Thanks for making this possible, Mr Obama!

  10. SHUT DOWN, YOU FOOL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "...after music streaming service Grooveshark was shutdown"

    Why in hell are you using a noun when a verb is required? Dumbass. It's crap like this that makes reading stuff on the Internet so difficult...and by "reading" I mean understanding.

  11. Hosting location? by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

    Are you going to host it in Antigua?

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  12. Think of it as evolution in action. by Ungrounded+Lightning · · Score: 1

    "...after music streaming service Grooveshark was shutdown"
    Why in hell are you using a noun when a verb is required?

    This is how language evolves.

    Sometimes you can convince people to drop a useful construct or misspelling - like by telling them it makes their arguments less convincing. Other times it's like trying to sweep back the tied.

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    1. Re:Think of it as evolution in action. by tlhIngan · · Score: 1

      "...after music streaming service Grooveshark was shutdown"
      Why in hell are you using a noun when a verb is required?

      This is how language evolves.

      Sometimes you can convince people to drop a useful construct or misspelling - like by telling them it makes their arguments less convincing. Other times it's like trying to sweep back the tied.[sic]

      Well, as someone once said, verbing weirds language.

      (Verbing is the act of turning a noun into a verb).