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Re:Grooveshark.io by agumonkey on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @06:07PM (#9495307)
5$ they're just a proxy for some public ftp mp3 index, using grooveshark name and style to bootstrap visits.
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Re:Grooveshark.io by joepie91_ on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @08:53PM (#9495991)
According to this tweet[1] it's actually mp3juices.se with a different skin. That seems to be confirmed by the same habit of using dl.<domain> for media serving, the very similar layout, and the same (apparent) choice of hosting provider.

[1] https://twitter.com/Mackaber/status/595744227084115969

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Re:Grooveshark.io by moskie on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @06:15PM (#9495348)
"to bootstrap visits?"

That's a new one.

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