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Grooveshark was a music-streaming site that was finally shut down by the music industry last week due to the revelation of deliberate violations of copyright by employees. Employees had uploaded music tracks themselves to bolster Grooveshark's catalog, in contrast to other services (e.g. YouTube) that simply take down user-uploaded content in response to DMCA notices and are not liable for copyright infringement of the users.
TorrentFreak reports that the widely-reported "clone" that emerged soon after Grooveshark's demise is actually a reskin of another site, MP3Juices.se:
We concede that to some the idea of a reincarnated Grooveshark will be a somewhat romantic one but as we highlighted at the weekend, the practice of passing one site off as another is now really getting out of hand.
Only time will tell if Grooveshark.io will magically transform into a proper replacement for the now defunct site, complete with playlist and community features for example, but it seems unlikely.
As things stand Grooveshark.io appears to be just a re-badged/re-skinned clone of MP3Juices.se, a low-traffic clone of the original MP3Juices. In the scheme of things it's hardly likely to be an important target for the RIAA, except for one small detail. The labels now own all of Grooveshark's intellectual property – brand names and trademarks included...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by aristarchus on Monday May 11 2015, @07:52AM
Or something is blatantly correct when, what were the numbers again?, 31 out of 34 were obviously correct. You, my dear sir, (and how would I know your gender, asshole!) are egregiously in error! I am going to pretend to have the answers, because in fact I do have the answers: Modding is what it is! There, by definition, can be no incorrect modding. And you, sir, are an asshole for suggesting otherwise. Comments that are getting down-modded are not good comments, they are down-modded comments, and down-modded because they are bad. It is your asinine insistence that there is something wrong with Soylent News modding that is making the discussion difficult to read. I suspect that your difficulty in reading has more, um, fundamental causes. So I am going to mod you down. And every other Soylentil will mod you down. Ultimately, you will be a Anonymous Coward crying in the wilderness, with ice weasels hot on your trail. I suggest you run, and don't look back. Ice weasels do not mod.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11 2015, @11:40AM
31 out of 34 were blatantly wrong.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Tuesday May 12 2015, @08:02AM
No, one out of 34 were blatantly wrong. 2 out of 34 were obvious rightwing/military perception management mods. And 6 out of 34 where just people passing by with no knowledge of the issue or interest in figuring it out. That leaves, majority of mods that are just insanely correct, on target, up the yahoo, and more than well deserved. Now, PROVE ME WRONG!!!! Oh, wait, that is not fair. I am sorry. It is obvious you cannot possibly conceive what a proof would be, or that it would be more than "I disagree". Fair enough, we have the "disagree" mod. Use it, if you dare to actually sign up for an account under a pseudonym so we can more precisely direct our ridicule at you. Or not. We are gweg_!!!!