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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @03:11PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 21 2015, @03:11PM (#211955)

    I'm sure the record labels will point to the unbearable guilt as the real culprit.