Grooveshark offers P2P music downloads — but is it legal?

Grooveshark offers P2P music downloads — but is it legal?

People have been trying to come up with a legal way to share music since the heydays of Kazaa and Napster. Record labels weren’t ready to relinquish control, though, and arguably, consumers weren’t ready to pay.

Grooveshark, a file sharing community that allows users to freely buy and sell tracks from each other, hopes that the timing is right to win the labels over.

Grooveshark is two things: A website and a small, downloadable application called Sharkbyte…. Continue Reading