The platform Grooveshark music playback was forced to close its website, after a long legal battle with the recording industry in the United States who claimed to lack of copyright licenses.
The end of the site was part of the legal agreements reached by Grooveshark and record companies, the American Association of Industry reported Recording (RIAA).
“We fail to obtain licenses from rights holders for most music service,” Grooveshark recognized for his part in a message posted on the to be his website, and today is inactive
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The portal, which for nearly ten years offered free music up to about 35 million monthly users, was sued in 2011 by Warner, Sony and Universal Music record companies, said Friday the digital version of the journal Rolling Stone.
“This is an important victory for all artists and music industry. For a long time, Grooveshark built his business without adequately compensate artists, composers and everybody else that enable good music, “RIAA said.
Grooveshark also pledged to eliminate music offering and delivering intellectual property, including patents and copyrights of the website.
Two of the founders of Grooveshark, Josh Greenberg and Sam Tarantino, admitted the creation and operation of infringing music service.
“That was wrong, we apologize. If you love music and respect artists, composers, and anyone who makes possible great music, use a service licensed to compensate artists and other licensees, “they said in a letter published Thursday statement.
The message portal also urged music lovers to choose hundreds of musical options that currently exist at reasonable prices as Spotify, Deezer, Google Play, Beats Music, Rhapsody and Rdio.
Grooveshark was created in 2006 by Greenberg, Tarantino and Colombian Andres Barreto, when the three were students at the University of Florida.
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