It took a matter of seconds to find a copyrighted song hosted under the site's domain. In our brief testing, however, that turned out to be false. Grooveshark.io says that all of its content is hosted on third-party servers and that it'll even display where the music was indexed from. Of course, that's only true if the claim is true. Instead, it claims to be a music search engine that crawls the web for music hosted elsewhere, which could distance it from legal troubles. Grooveshark.io doesn't appear to allow visitors to upload their music, unlike the original site. It writes, "Please respect these terms and conditions and support the artists!"
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The site has a lengthy disclaimer about how its files aren't added manually, which goes on to say that you shouldn't download anything copyrighted because that'd be illegal. Shark tells BGR, "It’s going to be a roller coaster, and we’re ready for it." At the same time, Grooveshark.io is still feigning an interest in playing by the rules. That means Grooveshark.io is on pretty shaky ground, though its creators seem to be well aware of that. Without reservation," Grooveshark wrote in a note announcing its closure. "We failed to secure licenses from rights holders for the vast amount of music on the service. Though that means there's no final ruling on Grooveshark's legality, it's a clear win for the labels.
Grooveshark was in court over the issue for some time and finally shut down last week after settling with labels.
While those removals had occurred, it was still fairly easy to locate copyrighted songs on the site. Because those files were uploaded by users, Grooveshark was able to live for years behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which somewhat shielded it from copyright issues so long as it promptly removed problematic files at a copyright holder's request. The original Grooveshark was (in)famous for being an easy way to find and stream copyrighted music for free. "It’s going to be a roller coaster, and we’re ready for it." That makes these claims seem less likely to be accurate, suggesting that Shark may instead be using the Grooveshark name to bring attention to mp3juices. The site appears to be a rebranding of, another music piracy site. It sounds challenging, to say the least, to scrape 90 percent of Grooveshark's content, but there may be another explanation for how Grooveshark.io came about so quickly. "I was connected to Grooveshark a few years back and I have, together with the team I've gathered, the knowledge and the technological abilities to bring it back to life," Shark writes in an email to The Verge. Shark claims to have backed up 90 percent of Grooveshark's content and to have also assembled a team dedicated to bringing all of Grooveshark's features, including playlists and favorites, back online.
The cloned site's creator, who goes under the pseudonym Shark, claims to have started backing up Grooveshark after suspecting that it was about to go offline. com), allowing visitors to keep streaming, downloading, and searching for music files, including the many, many copyrighted files that got the original site in trouble.
What's being called a clone of Grooveshark is now being hosted at Grooveshark.io (the original site was a. Grooveshark has come back online - but not officially or in exactly the same form.