Grooveshark partnership#3 = Magnatune

By Vivek | May 31st, 2007 at 10:22 pm ET         

We were one of the first blogs of discover Grooveshark more than 2 months back. Since that time, the Florida based anti-DRM startup has covered quite a bit of ground that includes launch of private beta and signing up music labels. Grooveshark has been especially quickly in building it’s music repository after having done deals with 3 music labels in 3 months. Latest on the scene is Magnatune, which is considered to be as “the first Internet-era record label”. Grooveshark earlier had done partnerships with London-based V2 Music Group and classical music label, Naxos.

Without any doubt, there is a long way to go and tough competition to overcome for the startup especially when the market already has very confusing music options. Also EMI on iTunes and potentially on Amazon does not help matters. Still the kind of publicity Grooveshark is getting for it’s anti-DRM stance is amazing and can win it quite a few user signups. Checkout the following links - from Digg, from Flickr

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