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Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case. In the music industry’s second big legal victory in a week, a federal judge in New York ruled on Monday that Grooveshark, an online music service long vilified by the major record companies, infringed on thousands of their copyrights.

Judge Rules Against Grooveshark in Copyright Infringement Case

Like Napster, LimeWire, Grokster and other online outlets before it, Grooveshark came under fierce attack from the recording industry for hosting music files without permission. Grooveshark — based in Gainesville, Fla., and identified in court papers by its parent company, Escape Media Group — makes millions of songs available for streaming. Yet despite numerous legal challenges, the service continued operating and building a huge audience in the years before the arrival of Spotify and other streaming outlets, which operate with the permission of record companies and music publishers.

But on Monday, granting summary judgment in a case filed in 2011 by the three major record companies, Judge Thomas P. Grooveshark condamné: La fin du service de streaming? Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter. Google has quietly expanded its list of censored search phrases with the addition of music streaming service Grooveshark.

Google Adds Grooveshark to its Piracy Search Filter

The piracy blacklist was introduced to curb copyright infringement and prevents popular keywords from appearing in Google’s Instant and Autocomplete services. On precisely what grounds Google decided to censor Grooveshark is unknown at this point. There are certain words Google doesn’t want its users to see without explicitly searching for them.

Type in the first letters of any private body part, cuss word, or a non traditional sexual orientation and you’ll notice that Google holds back the most obvious and most searched for suggestions. For more than two years Google has been applying the same moral compass to filter “piracy-related” terms from its Autocomplete and Instant services. Musique en ligne : Grooveshark conteste le retrait de son application Android. Grooveshark Help - Grooveshark VIP. Webmail. Groovylists.com - Convert your Spotify, LastFM, iTunes and Plaintext playlists to Grooveshark. Type in a song and make a free music link to share music with friends.

Nouvelle interface XHTML pour Grooveshark. Grooveshark. Collaboratives. Comparatif Grooveshark / Spotify / Deezer : qui est le meilleur ? Just Don’t Call Him The Colombian Mark Zuckerberg… As a teenager, Andres Barreto co-founded the music streaming service, Grooveshark.

Just Don’t Call Him The Colombian Mark Zuckerberg…

Now, at the ripe old age of 24, he’s got bigger things on his mind: championing an entrepreneur-led IT revolution in Latin America. In 2006, desperate to listen to the salsa music he grew up with in Bogotá, 18-year-old, US-based Colombian Andres Barreto had a big idea: "To make any song available to anyone in the world, from anywhere in the world. " So began Grooveshark, the world's largest on-demand music-streaming service.

What was especially unusual about Grooveshark was that its founders — Barreto, Sam Tarantino and Josh Greenberg — decided to buck the trend of the time among file-sharing websites and make their platform legal. In other words, they wanted to compete with online piracy. Wikiwix's cache. 7 Astuces pour profiter pleinement de Grooveshark Dailycious Info. Grooveshark- The best way to stream music online. Grooveshark ends service in Germany. BERLIN -- The music platform Grooveshark has stopped service in Germany, citing German performance rights organization GEMA as responsible for what it views as exorbitant licensing fees.

Grooveshark ends service in Germany

"Due to unreasonably high operating costs, Grooveshark is discontinuing service in Germany," a statement on the company's German site announced. "If you would like to see operating costs reduced for service providers such as Grooveshark, you can send a polite message to GEMA. "