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posted by cmn32480 on Tuesday July 21 2015, @10:25AM   Printer-friendly
from the no-second-acts dept.

Josh Greenberg, 28-year-old cofounder of the shuttered music streaming service Grooveshark, has been found dead at his home in Gainesville, Florida. The Gainesville Sun reports:

Lori Greenberg, his mother, said Monday he had no health problems and she was told by police who investigated Sunday night that there was no evidence of foul play, injuries or drugs. She said her son was more relieved than depressed about the settlement that shut down Grooveshark on April 30 since it ended the lawsuit that had been hanging over his head. Several record companies had sued the online music streaming service over copyright violations. "He was excited about potential new things that he was going to start," she said.

[...] Greenberg and Sam Tarantino founded Grooveshark as 19-year-old freshmen at the University of Florida in March 2006. At its peak, the company had up to 40 million users a month and 145 employees, occupying most of the second floor of the Union Street Station in downtown Gainesville and a small office in New York City. Greenberg helped train other entrepreneurs and computer programmers to get their start in the tech industry through Grooveshark University classes, the Summer with the Sharks internship program and as a partner in the Founders Pad business incubator. He started MaidSuite with Student Maid founder Kristen Hadeed to provide an online scheduling application for cleaning companies and other service providers and recently helped start the Gainesville Dev Academy to offer computer programming training. He was a founding member of the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce's Gainesville Technology Council.

Previous reporting on Grooveshark:

April 27: Grooveshark Faces $736 Million in Copyright Damages
May 1: Grooveshark Shuts Down & Apologizes to the RIAA
May 10: Music Industry Kills Grooveshark, "Clone" Emerges
May 17: New Grooveshark Site Taken Down, Another One Pops Up


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by AndyTheAbsurd on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:23AM

    by AndyTheAbsurd (3958) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:23AM (#211868) Journal

    So let me get this straight: a 28 year old man, with no known health problems, is unexpectedly dead and the police say there is "no evidence of foul play, injuries, or drugs". I don't know about you, but if I were the coroner, I would be taking a real close look at this case to determine cause of death. Sure, he could have had an undiagnosed heart condition or suffered from a cerebral hemorrhage or something, but given that he made enemies in powerful positions, it's worth a look.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by VLM on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:42AM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday July 21 2015, @11:42AM (#211873)

    Yeah this has been discussed widely elsewhere and:

    1) The dudes getting the full autopsy and tox scan treatment. The toxicology lab work only takes a couple days, in theory, however there's stereotypically massive overload of work, dotting all the i and crossing all the t, and there's a tendency to want to batch process, and theres a tendency to always be out of something or the GCMS tech being on vacation or WTF so the cops always report it'll take 6-8 weeks or 3 months or WTF depending on jurisdiction, although don't fall out of your seat if the official report is released next week. It "will" be done before 3 months or whatever their FAQ CYA answer, but in practice it'll be done much sooner.

    2) When cops and evidence techs say "no drugs" they mean at the crime scene there was no obviously blatant evidence like found dead with heroin needle still in arm, or crack pipe in hand or liquor and pill bottles next to the table. Obviously there's about a billion ways to go out partying, take too much of the wrong thing, come back home, and promptly die. Which is what the tox screen analyzes for. Open question if the place stinks of hard liquor and he suffocated on his own vomit lying on his back after a really "good" party, if the cops would report that as drugs or just keep it cool until the tox screen results come back with the BAC of 10% to make it official. There's a lot of CYA in the law enforcement and legal business and if you research it you'll find they actually said they didn't rule out drugs, they merely didn't see any in his hands at the time of discovery of the body.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @09:22PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @09:22PM (#212096)

      It's Gainesville. Everyone's on some drug or another. I live here: I know. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go powder my nose.

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:38PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday July 21 2015, @02:38PM (#211933) Journal

    When the lead singer of the band Gwar, Dave Brockie, died last year the immediate report was the same as listed here "no signs of foul play, drugs, etc." The thing is, that is just an initial report and really means nothing. It took about two or three months for Gwar to release the official report: heroin overdose. And even before the report was released, a friend who lives in richmond and is involved in its art scene called the heroin overdose right away. Turns out he had a habit of hanging out with junkie girls who got him hooked (it was obvious if you saw any of his interviews during his last two years). Why didn't cops find any needles then? Who knows. Someone might have been with him and left with the paraphernalia without knowing he was overdosing. That or whoever found him cleaned up to hide potentially embarrassing evidence.

    Bottom line is: the initial report means nothing.

  • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @05:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @05:22PM (#212001)

    but given that he made enemies in powerful positions, it's worth a look.

    Yeah, don't oversell it. There's a whole world out there beyond those Hollywood buddy-cop movies, you know.

    But don't worry, I read that they assigned the case to a loose cannon cop who doesn't play by the rules and his partner, a cop who is close to retirement who keeps saying "I'm too old for this."