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Grooveshark relaunches
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 30 October 2009
Sometimes controversial music search and share service Grooveshark has relaunched its website, part of its bid to move into a second stage of its history, as a licensed hybrid music search and streaming service.
As previously reported, Grooveshark’s original service, which, among other things, allowed users to stream and play music from across the net through one player, and which often played music from unlicensed sources, led to copyright litigation from EMI. Similar litigation against a similar service – Seeqpod – led to that company going under. But Grooveshark reached a deal with the major and now hopes to make a go of it as a legit music service – a service which has parallels with that announced by Google earlier this week.
The new look Grooveshark, which offers a range of streaming, search and recommendation services, apparently has an iTunes player feel to it – a strategy employed, of course, by Spotify.
