On Friday, November 18, Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit against online music streaming website Grooveshark, suing the site for $17 billion worth of copyright infringement and damages. Grooveshark has had several skirmishes with copyright infringement and lawsuit since the site was founded in 2007, but none that equal the lawsuit filed by Universal. Grooveshark […]
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Let Grooveshark Help Unload Your Emotional Baggage
Feeling upset? Music can solve all your problems. Or at least that’s what Grooveshark’s latest publicity stunt, emotionalbagcheck.com would have you think. Grooveshark, a kind of Pandora/Spotify-esque all-in-one streaming site, started up in 2009 and is now up to over 35 million users. Grooveshark, trying desperately to stay relevant as Spotify enters the U.S. and […]
Kazaa Is Back And On iOS
Are you an iPhone user who subscribes to a streaming music service and aren’t happy with your current provider? Then you might be in for some good news, with an old name — Kazaa has just released an app to the Apple App Store for the iPhone and iPad. Kazaa, we had such good times […]
Voice of Subjectivity: I Need Spotify!
There is no perfect streaming music service yet. But for me, Spotify comes awfully close.
Voice of Objectivity: Who Needs Spotify?
Is Spotify really bringing anything to the table that we didn’t already have here in the US? It’s gotten a lot better media coverage than some of its competitors, but let’s see how it really matches up.