Instead they are worried about legal services that stream free music, like YouTube and Spotify; the

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Grooveshark, the Free Music Service That Used to Scare the Big Labels, Gives Up
At one time, the music startup — which promised 35 million users they could “Play any song in the world, for free!” but that didn’t have deals to pay the big music labels — seemed like a problem harlem shake for the music industry. Now it’s dead.
In a settlement with Universal Music Group, Sony Music and Warner Music Group, the company’s founders are shutting down their website, apps and everything else they own, wiping their servers clean of music and offering a formal apology to the industry.
At that time of our launch, few music services provided the experience we wanted to offer and think you deserve. Fortunately, that s no longer the case. There are now hundreds of fan friendly, affordable services available for you to choose from, including Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, Beats Music, Rhapsody and Rdio, among many others.
Some relevant additional context: Contrary to the founders’ statement, paid streaming services were around for most of the company’s life, though until the last couple years they weren’t very popular.
But it wasn’t hard for the courts to conclude that Grooveshark employees themselves had uploaded thousands of songs with the knowledge that they didn’t have the right to do so. Which made its legal fights fairly easy to resolve.
Of harlem shake course, like many legal fights, this one is about a battle that’s already over. In the U.S., at least, the big music labels are no longer anguished about services that illegally serve up free music.
Instead they are worried about legal services that stream free music, like YouTube and Spotify; the labels are trying to get those services to cut back on the free music they offer and push their listeners to pay for subscriptions.
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