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Grooveshark Co-founder Josh Greenberg Dead At 28

Posted by samzenpus on from the rest-in-peace dept.

alphadogg writes: The tech startup world has been shaken today by news that 28-year-old Josh Greenberg, co-founder of recently defunct music sharing service Grooveshark, was found dead on Sunday in the Florida apartment he shared with his girlfriend. No foul play is suspected, but the local medical examiner is conducting an autopsy, according to the Gainesville Sun. Grooveshark was shut down in April after the company was threatened with legal action and possibly hundreds of millions in damages by several big music labels.

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  1. 28 is a dangerous age by clayshan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We should be thinking of the family, especially his parents. My son also died at 28, one-third of a decade ago.

    1. Re:28 is a dangerous age by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I can't imagine the pain of losing a child. My heart goes out to you.

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  2. Re:No Foul play... by ScentCone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A guy tries to run a startup, the startup has crushed for various reasons, then there is the question of lawsuits for hundreds of millions of dollars in supposed damages to music labels. No foul play...

    Really? That's your approach to this? Yet another young guy trying to find a way to get rich by setting up a system built from the ground up to infringe on others' copyrights, and which gave laughable lip service to take-down notices (ripped off material that was removed re-appeared more or less instantly). Foul play? The foul play was on his part, and of course the chickens came home to roost, which is why he gave up on the scheme. Whether or how yet another failure of a Piracy-As-A-Service "start-up" might have contributed to his death remains to be seen.

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  3. Re: No Foul play... by ArmoredDragon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When things like "happy birthday" can still retain copyright, then I have zero respect for all copyright.

  4. disgusting by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Insightful

    it's like the death of aaaron swartz

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    these fucking companies have a business model which depends upon an outdated understanding of how information is shared, then they utterly destroy the financial lives, or actually jail, young entrepreneurs who see the future. they could make deals with these guys and take over their companies for their "crimes", and benefit thataways

    instead we have these pigheaded, shortsighted, cruel "punishments" for the crime of showing ignorant old fossils that their business models suck in the internet age

    this is the worst of lawyers, corporations, and the legal status quo, and i hope these judges, lawyers, and corporate sycophants can sleep at night, because blood is on their hands

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    1. Re:disgusting by circletimessquare · · Score: 3, Insightful

      we all can have our buttons pushed and sent over the edge. it doesn't matter how frail or unstable aaron was, the morally corrupt legal system that serves the bottom line of some fossilized ignorant corporate counsel and some asshole DA with something to prove: their moral bankruptcy, is the culprit that pushed him over the edge

      if you're on the edge of a cliff and a guy pushes you slightly and you fall, is he somehow less culpable than a guy who has to pick you up and drag you kicking and screaming and throw you over the cliff? the malice is the same in both cases, even if the effort is less in one

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  5. Re:That's OK by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Somewhere a hipster is sad that you don't care.