Grooveshark may have just been dealt a fatal legal blow

A federal judge in New York said late Monday that free music streaming service Grooveshark has infringed on thousands of major label copyrights. The record labels have for years sought ways of taking the groove out of Grooveshark, and they may have finally managed it. Gainesville, Florida-based Grooveshark has long hidden from infringement allegations behind the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which says websites can not be held liable for hosting copyrighted materials as long as they provide copyright holders a mechanism for removing infringing material.