
“Greenberg’s death comes several weeks after Grooveshark reached a final settlement with the record labels that sued it out of business over copyright violations. To avoid a damages trial that could’ve awarded those labels hundreds of millions of dollars, Grooveshark agreed to wipe away its entire existence, erasing all servers and giving ownership of its web domain, mobile applications, and all intellectual property to the labels. At its peak, the service tallied between 35 million and 40 million users and employed 145 people.”
http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9005785/grooveshark-josh-greenberg-found-dead
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