General / Off-Topic Grooveshark closed :(

Hexen · May 4, 2015

Been using it for quite a while and enjoying it very much. Sadly after long holidays I noticed that service been closed. Oh well, back to the Soundcloud.

P.S.
Something similar happened with Pandora during early rise of such services. At least Pandora is still active and kicking but restricted in access.

xondk · May 4, 2015

Well this was to be expected, there were so many many many illegal tracks there.

Hexen · May 4, 2015

xondk said:
Well this was to be expected, there were so many many many illegal tracks there.

Still it was very generous to offer such vast library of music for free, including tracks that were free to distribute. UI and interface was very polished and easy to use. It was a good service and I wish there was another way to settle things without such drastic actions

xondk · May 4, 2015

Hexen said:
Still it was very generous to offer such vast library of music for free, including tracks that were free to distribute. UI and interface was very polished and easy to use. It was a good service and I wish there was another way to settle things without such drastic actions

This part is the tricky part, yes, free for you, but at the cost of the creators, disregarding the argument about how much creator actually gets vs how much record company gets, it did take the music from the creators without permission or paying them profit and hand it to everyone.