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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by fastfinner on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @09:12AM (#3047658)
anybody know why spotify is mentioned so much more than grooveshark?
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by kupo on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @09:21AM (#3047691)
Spotify is 100% licensed. AFAIK, Grooveshark is more like Napster in that it's a free-for-all with user uploaded content, though they have worked out deals with some of the record companies.
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by Greg12x on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @09:24AM (#3047702)
I personally like grooveshark, because it literally has everyone song I want.
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by kalleboo on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @09:31AM (#3047739)
That's a pretty good sign that it's not really legal.
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by bengl3rt on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @10:50AM (#3048092)
Sad that that's a good indicator, still, no?
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by dstien on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @12:17PM (#3048609)
Spotify also started out with a lot of unlicensed content before they came clean in early 2009: http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-impo...
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by shinratdr on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @02:25PM (#3049228)
Right but they solved that problem in 2009. It's 2011 and Grooveshark is still mostly pirated content.
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Re:Thank Spotify: people who pirate music has dropped by 25%... by Chrono on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @09:22AM (#3047698)
As far as I know, barely anyone use Grooveshark in Sweden while practically all my (University) friends use Spotify. Doesn't Grooveshark have some quite dodgy habits when it comes to paying the artists/using legit music files? Or was that some other music streaming service?

If nothing else Spotify has received a lot of good press in Sweden simply because it is Swedish. Patriotism :) And this was a Swedish study after all.

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