A file sharing website grooveshark.com just got shut down today. I’m friends with a high executive vp they’re based out of Gainseville, FL. My stance is that I believe if a profit is being made off of an online file sharing website where rights aren’t secure then there is legitimate claim against them. They were regularly offered contracts that were impossible for them to secure as a smaller company. There was a time when they were the only legitimate competition with Pandora before they really took off.

The industry was short sighted not to see that their existence is necessary and offer them realistic contracts to make their music and new music available to a wider audience. I can imagine a free file-sharing platform like napster but it would have to be a torrent like program (not a website) which connects users directly. Grooveshark had a feature like this with profiles and favorites but all of the songs were still on Grooveshark servers. If a program was created, anonymously perhaps and maintained by users then there would be no company who could shut it down.

I systematically stated my reasons why I believe that such a program is inevitable and a boon to all the art-form and artist alike. Read this forum argument in defense of a short essay I entitled Piracy https://medium.com/@jasonohara/piracy-e29674e6a868?source=tw-50e1ab891817-1430694529957

http://able2know.org/topic/276019-1