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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:Dead at 28, no apparent signs of foul play... by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Informative

    Cocaine is really difficult to overdose on, especially at such a young age. People who die from cocaine usually have a heart attack and are usually close to having one anyway. "Pills" is overly general. Opiates (oxycontin, heroin, morphene, fentanyl) are 99.9% of the overdoses that affect otherwise healthy people.

    The actual overdose rates don't seem to support that on the surface, unless heroin is almost exclusively being used by healthy people, and cocaine is being used almost exclusively by physically frail individuals. http://www.drugabuse.gov/relat...

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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. In his honor... by Tx · · Score: 5, Funny

    In his honor, I plan to launch a streaming burials site, where you can watch people being laid to rest 24/7. No, I will not pay any royalties to the families of the deceased.

    I plan to call the site "GraveShark".

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  5. 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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