Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry.

Re:Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry. by dcosson on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @09:51AM (#2462590)

I'm curious what Grooveshark does that allows it to be legal, where as p2p networks, youtube, megavideo, etc. routinely have to take down their copyrighted content. Anyone know?

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Re:Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry. by flipbrad on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:03AM (#2462621)

The answer is: Grooveshark routinely has to take down (unlicenced, non-fair-use) copyrighted content, just like the others. That's the cost of DMCA safe harbour compliance.

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Re:Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry. by stianan on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:55AM (#2462756)

How come they have so much content then? Is it because the copyright holders can't send them sufficiently detailed take-down notices fast enough?

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Re:Grooveshark makes a stand against the music industry. by kin on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @01:40PM (#2463400)

Pretty much. You'll see that the aggressive ones are taken down, like the Beatles, won't find that at Grooveshark. However, you can upload your own Beatles tracks and label them differently "B34tles" and it'll stay up there longer, just like the Kazaa days.

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