Grooveshark was a web-based music streaming service owned and operated by Escape Media Group in the United States.
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24 Facts About Grooveshark
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The Grooveshark website had a search engine, music streaming features, and a music recommendation system.
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Grooveshark was sued for copyright violations by EMI Music Publishing, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group.
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However, Grooveshark was available in alternative app stores, such as Cydia, Google Play and BlackBerry World.
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Grooveshark was a service of Escape Media Group Inc, based in Gainesville, Florida, with additional offices located in New York City.
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Grooveshark stated that it paid users who uploaded a transacted song a portion of the accounting costs for the song.
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Grooveshark positioned itself as a legal competitor to other popular P2P networks such as LimeWire, although questions about its legality arose from the beginning.
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Grooveshark's model had been approved by various small record labels, but not by any of the major record companies.
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Also in 2009, Grooveshark launched its artist platform called Grooveshark Artists, which served as an analytics service for artists whose music was streamed on the site.
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On October 27,2009, Grooveshark revised its interface, which featured skipping to any point in a song, left-hand navigation, customizable site themes, and drag-and-drop editing of playlists.
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On January 18,2012, Grooveshark removed service in Germany, stating that it closed due to the costs of licensing.
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On November 21,2011, Grooveshark was a Mashable Awards 2011 Finalist in the Best Music Service or App category.
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On September 5,2012, Grooveshark presented its full HTML5 player, effectively nullifying Google's and Apple's decisions to make the service unavailable to mobile apps.
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From July 2014, Grooveshark announced that it would accept Bitcoin as a form of payment via Stripe.
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The Grooveshark website was replaced with a message announcing the closure, and pointed users towards licensed music streaming services.
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Shortly after the shutdown, a new Grooveshark-branded website surfaced under a different top-level domain, offering a basic MP3 search engine that claimed to use the site's previous library of music, and promising to restore much of its original functionality.
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Grooveshark was a rich Internet application that originally ran in Adobe Flash.
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Grooveshark had a Java Web Start application that scanned user folders for MP3s, uploading and adding them to the user's online library.
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Grooveshark streamed over 1 billion sound files per month, contained over 15 million songs, and had 20 million users.
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Grooveshark featured a "Community" section, where users could view the activity of friends by "following" them.
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Grooveshark offered two subscription services that gave users increased features, no banner ads, and playability on mobile devices.
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UMG cited internal documents revealing that Grooveshark employees uploaded thousands of illegal copies of UMG-owned recordings.
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Grooveshark denied all the complaints, complaining there was a "gross mischaracterisation" of the documents obtained during the lawsuit's discovery phase.
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Grooveshark had licensing deals with a number of independent record labels, such as Sun Records.
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