In our last class, we went over copyrighted material and intellectual property. During our discussuion, the web site Grooveshark was brought up. Right now Grooveshark is being sued by Universal music group. For those of you that don't know what Grooveshark is, it is a free online music site that allows users to post their own music and other users to listen to the posted music. Grooveshark also has an internet radio function similiar to Pandora.
Universal alleges that Grooveshark has some copyrighted music on its site, belonging to Universal. Here is a link that describes the details of the law suit...http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10432132-27.html. I find this interesting because Grooveshark seems to the line of how Napster got shut down, and how Pandora can contimue.
I just want to say that I love Grooveshark and I don't want it to get shut down. The purpose of this post was to bring awareness to those of you that don't know what it is. You can search for any song, put it on a playlist, and then log in from a mobile device or ipod and play your playlist. All of this can be done without illegally downloading a thing. Go check it out if you havn't.
I think it is tough for people our age to understand the complexities surrounding the copyright of music. We sure know that these artists sure arent starving after creating some new phenomenon that we are choosing to steal.. yet it is constantly litigated, like the case against Limewire.
ReplyDeleteRegardless I have just recently tries Grooveshark and also use Pandora and I think they are GREAT! I would not want to lose either.