14 DAY TRIAL // After Grooveshark had announced that it was closing down and even encouraged its subscribers to use licensed services, everyone thought that the decision was final. However, it seems that the music streaming services has been resurrected, only days after the official announcement was released.
BGR reports that a mysterious person who calls himself Shark has gathered up a team of acolytes in order to bring back Grooveshark. And they managed to do it as the site is back up under a different domain.
The man, whose real identity remains a secret, although he is assumed to have a part of the Grooveshark team, confessed that when he realized that the demise of the site was steadily approaching, he decided to jump into action and back up the content. Although he managed to secure about 90 percent of it, he is convinced that he will soon be able to obtain the rest as well.
Some people suspect that there is no mystery man behind the idea, and that it was just the site’s plan all along to delude U.S. jurisdiction and end the six-years battle with music companies on copyright violation grounds.
How long will the clone last?
Either way, the site is prone to be shut down again given that music companies will not let things go just because it has changed domain. The files that the cloned site shares are still copyrighted and the site is in for the same treatment as its predecessor, but its creators seem to be prepared for what’s coming, "It’s going to be a roller coaster, and we’re ready for it."
And the lengthy legal disclaimer that the new site has included is probably not going to be of much use, despite the fact that it informs users that the files they are about to download have copyrights on them and that the practice is illegal.
Whether it is a fan, a former Grooveshark worker or the original site’s founders themselves, it remains to be seen how long they can keep the reconstituted website rolling before it is taken down again. Even so, there is always YouTube to turn to.