Grooveshark Faces $736 Million In Copyright Damages

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These guys better hope they can live up to their name and "escape" that $736 million that the record companies are trying to get out of them. :eek:

As Grooveshark parent company Escape Media prepares to face off against the world's largest record labels in New York later today, the company is bracing for the worst. In a pre-hearing ruling a judge described Grooveshark's copyright violations on 4,907 tracks as "willful", potentially putting the company on the hook for $736 million in damages.
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Yea...telling your employees to upload their purchased-for-personal-use libraries isn't just "willful" it is damned moronic.
 
Historically uploaded?
Does that mean they are on the up and now?
Why bother with this lawsuit then.. are they not a revenue generating entity now for record companies?
 
These record dinosaurs keep pushing people back to torrenting with these silly antics.
 
heatlesssun said:
This isn't a going after grandma that downloaded a few songs case.
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No kidding. This is actual corporate for-profit wrongdoing, that was knowingly and willfuly illegal. Not sure what their defense on the grounds of "we tried to negotiate contracts" is...Unless Grooveshark can show that the RIAA was being insanely unreasonable in licensing negotiations (wanting $115,000/song to play on air).
 
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