Being sued != being illegal. Not having a licensing contract != not paying anything for streams. Note: regular HN reader and Grooveshark employee who happened

Being 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...