4 ms·
I listen to streaming music all day every day while at work/home ect. I pay a monthly subscription to Grooveshark for this. They in turn pay these record labels
by CoryMathews 17y ago
I listen to streaming music all day every day while at work/home ect. I pay a monthly subscription to Grooveshark for this. They in turn pay these record labels when I play the music.
If they take away music from streaming sites I will go back to the way I did it years ago and download everything. I am not going to buy music from them.
Artists make their money from concerts. Record labels make their money from theft and lawsuits.
- dalton 17y agoUm, grooveshark does not have a deal with WMG. WMG makes the same amount of money when you pay grooveshark as when you download bittorrent files. At least the bittorrent sites don't pretend they are legal to sucker people into paying them. http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/1230487706.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100111/1230487706.shtml
- wanderr 17y agoBeing sued != being illegal. Not having a licensing contract != not paying anything for streams. Note: regular HN reader and Grooveshark employee who happened to stumble across this thread while reading HN; I'm not representing Grooveshark here, just mentioning in the interest of full disclosure. I'm a programmer, so don't know everything about the legal side of things, but I do know Grooveshark's intent isn't to rip anyone off; I also know that contract negotiation is a long, painful and expensive process, and apparently labels like to sue when negotiations are getting serious, for leverage. We are DMCA compliant and operate in a model similar to Youtube, which had to deal with the same kinds of problems early on...