Less than a week after music-streaming service Grooveshark shut down, the site has been wholly reconstituted, brought back to life by an individual "connected to the original Grooveshark," according to a BGR report.

The mystery man, who identified himself only as "Shark," said that he saved most of the Florida-based website before it was taken down on Thursday. Now he's put the site, which was sued by record companies in 2011, back up at a new domain: grooveshark.io.

In an email sent earlier today, Shark explained the return:

How can I do this? Well, I started backing up all the content on the website when I started suspecting that Grooveshark’s demise is close and my suspicion was confirmed a few days later when they closed. By the time they closed I have already backed up 90% of the content on the site and I’m now working on getting the remaining 10%.

The new website does claim to have a DMCA process, but that is very unlikely to help it in any coming legal battle. The original Grooveshark was shut down after a long struggle, including a severe court loss last year. The judicial order that doomed Grooveshark noted that the company's CTO had demanded that company employees upload MP3's into the system, or face the prospect of going on his "shit list."

The founders of Grooveshark admitted to making "very serious mistakes" when they created their service, and in their farewell message apologized "without reservation."

The new site's strategy may simply be to avoid the jurisdiction of US courts. A whois search shows that the site is registered in Vinnytsia, Ukraine, to a person named "Vita Tkach."