Grooveshark Is Back

Now there’s no shortage of online services which let you stream music for free, legally I might add, and while Grooveshark often found itself in a legal grey area many just assumed that the site would continue to live on and would fight or its survival by going up against record labels that urged it to give up. The record companies won in the end as Grooveshark was shut down by the authorities last week and as fans of the service mourned its loss, it appears a team was silently working to bring the site back online.

According to a report someone connected to Grooveshark assembled a team to bring the site back online. The individual says they started backing up all content when it became apparent that Grooveshark would be shut down soon, 90% of the content has been backed up and now they’re working on getting the remaining 10%.

The resurrected Grooveshark is currently in the early stages of development but the team is hopeful that it will be able to bring back the old Grooveshark UI in its entirety, so it would be as if the site was never shut down at all.

Grooveshark is now live at another URL and much of the music that was available on the original site is indeed up for grabs. It merits mentioning here that the team is indeed operating outside of the law.

It tries to absolve itself of any responsibility by warning users that “The songs you want to download may have copyright(s) on them. This means you’re not allowed to download the song if you don’t possess the original record.”

Will labels get to it and have it taken down as well? Time will tell.

Adnan Farooqui
Categories: Audio
Tags: Grooveshark