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Grooveshark Goes Dark In Germany Over 'Unreasonably High' License Fees
engadget.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoThe masses of online music streamers in Germany have discovered that there's one less option for blasting Cee Lo Green. Grooveshark has pulled the plug on its services in the country due to the seemingly truckloads of cash it was shelling out to GEMA, the performance and reproduction rights organization. The US-based music streaming service is no stranger to licensing quarrels, though, as they've been in scuffles with Sony, Universal, Warner and EMI in the States. Grooveshark goes dark in Germany over 'unre
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Grooveshark Is Forced To Block German Users
gadgetell.com 3 weeks, 6 days agoGrooveshark is no stranger to disputes over copyright and license fees, but today the service had to actually take itself down in Germany. Starting today German Grooveshark users who try to use the service will get a message saying that they can’t access it from their country. The issue for Grooveshark is license fees instated by GEMA, a German group that represents over 2 million rights holders and has a total of 64,000 members. GEMA asked Grooveshark to pay “unreasonably high” licensing fees, So Groovesha
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