Friday, May 15

Lawsuit takes down new Grooveshark site—and another one pops up

Just a few days after illegal music-streaming service Grooveshark apologized and shut down, a mysterious person identified only as "Shark" reconstituted the site at Grooveshark.io.

In response, the major record labels appear to have obtained a temporary restraining order wresting away that domain name. According to Torrentfreak, the labels filed a lawsuit under seal in New York federal court. The site reports that US District Judge Deborah Batts issued a seizure order "directed at the site’s operators, hosting providers, and domain registrar NameCheap."

NameCheap appears to have quickly complied, and the grooveshark.io Web address no longer functions.

Read 4 remaining paragraphs | Comments

No comments:

Post a Comment