{"id":3771,"date":"2013-11-14T06:05:48","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T06:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/grooveshark-getting-blocked-in-the-uk-us-exec-murdered\/"},"modified":"2013-11-14T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2013-11-14T06:05:48","slug":"grooveshark-getting-blocked-in-the-uk-us-exec-murdered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/11\/14\/grooveshark-getting-blocked-in-the-uk-us-exec-murdered\/","title":{"rendered":"Grooveshark Getting Blocked in the U.K., U.S. Exec Murdered&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/23\/Grooveshark_screenshot_of_King_Crimson_work.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"220\" height=\"121\" \/><br \/>Grooveshark is in some hot water thanks to the BPI, a trade organization in the U.K. that is looking to get the company blocked by U.K. ISPs. Though they\u2019ve eluded previous rounds of blocking, it is rumored that Grooveshark is the primary target of the upcoming campaign.   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>Prelude to Blocking<\/p>\n<p> As TorrentFreak explains, PPL sent out \u201cfresh correspondence\u201d for the BPI asking members if they\u2019ve licensed \u201crecorded music to the operators of the Grooveshark website in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> They\u2019re asking for response by November 11 so, based on previous timelines, they may not complete this process till early next year.<\/p>\n<p> The BPI said it\u2019s all routine, nothing to worry about, though TorrentFreak describes the situation as \u201cfairly obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> TorrentFreak sought a response from Grooveshark \u201cbut in line with our requests for comment on similar topics in the past, the company failed to respond to our emails.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In additional bad news for Grooveshark, their Director of International Sales was found murdered recently:<\/p>\n<p> Though it\u2019s not directly related to licensing issues, Grooveshark recently suffered a deep loss with the shooting and murder of Eddy Vasquez, Director of International Sales. In a statement the company said, \u201cGrooveshark as a company mourns the tragic loss of one of its employees, Eddy D. Vasquez. Mr. Vasquez was visiting friends and family in the Tampa Bay area over the weekend when he fell victim to a senseless act of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: The Daily Swarm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grooveshark is in some hot water thanks to the BPI, a trade organization in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}