Are any of you still mourning the death of Grooveshark? Well stop, because it’s back. A mysterious individual by the name of Shark has assembled a team who has brought the website back to life. According to him, he sensed that the website was about to be killed off and started backing up all of its content and managed to save about 90% of it before Grooveshark officially closed down.
There are more free, legal ways to stream music over the Internet than ever, but it was still a bit of a shock to see Grooveshark finally go offline after more than half a decade of legal battles and controversy. I had always just assumed that Grooveshark would be around forever, fighting the good fight and refusing to adapt, but the record companies finally got the better of the dubious streaming service on April 30th. But that’s not the end of the story. On Tuesday, I received an email from someone calling himself Shark — an individual connected to Grooveshark who has assembled a team to bring the site back to life. “How can I do this?,” he asks in the email. “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%.”