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Indeed.

But it is properly not the labels that killed it.

I have no problem with paying reasonable prices for stuff (I have brought way too many books on kindle, plenty of music on iTunes, etc) but I see no reason to use spotify/last.fm/pandora over grooveshark.

It lets me stream what I am interested in (whether a specific song or a particular genre of music) when I want it. That is really all I want in a music service.

The irony is that it makes me a pirate (maybe, I am not quite sure if it is still called that when I don't upload) but I am a paying member of grooveshark (and has been for years). If the music guys makes a legal clone of grooveshark, I would properly be a member there instead.



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