Grooveshark died while Spotify lived — and that's a loss for music-lovers

Even after every major record label sued Grooveshark simultaneously for copyright infringement in 2011, the company refused to entertain the possibility of defeat

"There were reports that I thought were pretty amusing of us being dead," Sam Tarantino, co-founder and CEO of Grooveshark, told me during a long interview in 2013. We were sitting in the company's tiny office above a dive bar in New York, where a scattered staff, trimmed in size because of the company's legal costs, still peppered the desks. "I've been doing this since 2006, we're not going anywhere," Tarantino added.

Almost exactly two years after Tarantino confidently declared that Grooveshark was here to stay, it has folded. The company was effectively sued out of existence. Last week, a judge determined that the company could be forced to pay $736 million or more in damages because Grooveshark employees, including Tarantino, for allegedly personally uploading nearly 5,000 copyrighted songs to the service Read more...

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