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by kupo 5374 days ago
Spotify is 100% licensed. AFAIK, Grooveshark is more like Napster in that it's a free-for-all with user uploaded content, though they have worked out deals with some of the record companies.
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I personally like grooveshark, because it literally has everyone song I want.
That's a pretty good sign that it's not really legal.
Sad that that's a good indicator, still, no?
Spotify also started out with a lot of unlicensed content before they came clean in early 2009: http://www.spotify.com/uk/blog/archives/2009/01/28/some-impo...
Right but they solved that problem in 2009. It's 2011 and Grooveshark is still mostly pirated content.