Grooveshark - free streaming music

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http://listen.grooveshark.com

This is the online flash player version: Grooveshark Lite. No account needed.

Seems to have a good range. From Type O Negative (go listen to their Bloody Kisses album), to The Hollies, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Edith Piaf, Tool, etc etc.
 
I can search and select songs, but they never actually start streaming. Anyone else have this problem?
 
Ok what the hell.

This is ****ing insane. I'd give this website 2 months of lasting time. Seriously, I can pretty much find every song there, classified by albums. You can easily rip out full length album songs playing at 160kbps. This is where it beats Seeqpod. Seeqpod allows you to search out and download songs, but most of the time you don't find the songs you want, or it's not well classified.

Illegalus Maximus. I'm not a music pirater or illegal downloader, I buy my music. But both Seeqpod and these guys are making it too easy. Bad for Music Industry. BAD!

http://img182.imagevenue.com/aAfkjfp01fo1i-9944/loc112/56868_MADNESS_122_112lo.jpg

example. Anyone could easily rip.
 
I didn't see an option to download, so wouldn't you have to record the stream? Also, I didn't see more than a handful of each artists songs. also 160kbps is very compressed. it also looked like there was a place to buy the music right there, and also I saw that the music could be uploaded by the artists themselves as an avenue of sales.

and if you think these places are making it too easy, are you aware of torrents? No insult intended, but you can just click an artists name and download every song they've ever recorded in one click in many cases.

I think if anything, grooveshark is beneficial to world wide music awareness. You can find out about brand new artists, and hear if you like their stuff before buying it.

EDIT: also I don't think you can't negotiate the tracks (you can't fast forward, etc.) which isn't as nice as owning a copy.

also, for streaming music, you can't take it with you on an MP3 player for example.


BTW your image link doesn't work
 
The idea is that it's the users who upload the songs over P2P e.g. Limewire, so that's how they'll try to escape any blame for copyrighted music they don't have deals with:

So if you offer a song for sale for which they do not have the agreement of the copyright holder, you are liable, not them.
Grooveshark has no filters, it allows you to offer all music and any other user can buy that music from you.
So you it is your responsibility to know which artists have signed agreements with grooveshark. 70 have so far.
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You can't get sued for listening to what's there though. Just don't log-in and download/upload anything illegal.
 
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