Universal Music has in the United States Grooveshark sued. The media company argues that staff of the service itself, music upload, to to the director. Universal, however, seems to go just completed. n anonymous source.
Reason for the complaint is a comment under an article on the website Digital Music News. A person who claims Grooveshark to be active, writes that the staff of above the has been instructed to recover deleted music files to upload to the service. Also notice the poster on that users of Grooveshark, in fact, no music need to upload, because the staff here makes, writes TorrentFreak.
On the basis of this anonymous posting is Universal proceeded to sue Grooveshark in a district court in New York. According to the media company has Grooveshark ceo Samuel Tarantino 1791 files with copyright-protected material to its own service uploaded, while senior vice president Paul Geller 3453 music files on the streaming music service has posted. Another ceo, Benjamin Westermann-Clark, would even 4600 tracks online.
Or Universal Music solely on the basis of an anonymous source the case against Grooveshark is started is unclear, but if the publisher is the case win, it seems the streaming music service a big problem to have; in the U.S., the compensation may amount to a maximum of $ 150,000 per illegally offered song. Moreover, Grooveshark also outside of the U.S. with the necessary problems, such as a lawsuit in Denmark.
Grooveshark is a music service that relies on the music that users upload. This is to find music which has no copyright licences are closed, but the company says within the limits of the law to operate, by music without permission is uploaded on the request to delete. Incidentally, GrooveShark or licenses, for example, with EMI.