I'm a Former Grooveshark Employee. And Here's What I Need to Tell the Industry..

"So you’re probably asking why I’m doing this for no money, just the fame hah.  Well it’s simple really — you see gs really could have been a big allie to the entire industry and artists but about 3 guys decided that we should be killed while Spotify and rdio and Youtube lived.  We had Beluga which was one of the best and innovative tools for artists that they could access independently, or through a label, not to mention Youtube was paying a fraction of us and offering no analytics and sometimes NOTHING.  Same thing with Pandora, Spotify and pretty much everyone else who claims that they are helping artists (hint they’re not).  See half your readers vilify gs but really it’s a smear campaign where somehow Youtube and Spotify doesn’t get touched but we look like criminals. 

We’re the bad guys, but WHY  ?? — well that’s simple: the labels ONLY care about getting $1.6 million salaries and screwing everyone else who gets in the way of that.  And now that you got that Sony contract you can no one gets paid except for a few guys at the top.  They even fired the lawyer at UMG in the middle of our case because he wanted more money — so less for them, see?  But really they decided that gs was the bad guy because we didn’t want to pay the $20 million to line their pockets and they didn’t think we could do an I.P.O — so we were USELESS to them even though we were helping 1000s of artists every day.  And trust me it’s money THEY keep artists never see any of that — EVER.  "

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