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Re:Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Groovesha... by ique on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @11:18PM (#2069869)
It's just the same old piracy arguments as always. Using a legal loophole is not the same as selling drugs or not follow safety regulations.

Grooveshark is not doing anything illegal even if they might be "abusing the law".

The fact remains that people want to consume music in a way that the music industry does not allow.

If it werent for legal loopholes we wouldn't have YouTube and we wouldn't have tourism in eastern Europe. The world isn't as black and white as you portray it and Grooveshark provides an amazing service of much higher quality than Spotify.

We can't all sit on our hands and do nothing because someone in the world thinks we shouldn't. Innovation sometimes requires using loopholes.

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Re:Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Groovesha... by carussell on Wednesday January 05, 2011 @01:34AM (#2070172)
"Using a legal loophole is not the same as selling drugs or not follow safety regulations."

It's not even a legal loophole; it's straight-up, conscious infringement complete with a wink and nudge.

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Re:Vote to amend the DMCA and help music apps like Groovesha... by tptacek on Tuesday January 04, 2011 @11:39PM (#2069926)
People want to do a lot of things, dude.
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