This is a battle that appears to be bleeding beyond the major labels.  We've seen the markings of a broader artist and industry backlash, and now, there's this.  The sharpest attack on Grooveshark is now coming from TuneCore CEO Jeff Price, an artist champion who spends most of this time fighting against the majors.  Yet on Friday, Price tore into the company for failing to compensate his artists and blatantly exploiting legal loopholes.  In fact, Price is now urging his massive indie and DIY community to boycott the company, and directly contact Grooveshark advertisers to pressure change.

The clock is definitely ticking for Grooveshark.

A Danish copyright group has won a court order to block music streaming site Grooveshark from the nation's pastry-munching pirates.

In a report of questionable accuracy (the plaintiff Rettighedsalliancen is incorrectly described as a "local IFPI") at tech site Comon [Den - Eng]. Hutchison-owned mobile operator 3 must implement the block immediately. Denmark was one of the first to implement DNS-level blocking, first against Pirate Bay more than three years ago. An appeal is expected.

Grooveshark increasingly looks like the MegaUpload of music streaming.

“Contrary to its statements, the provider Grooveshark did not discontinue its services in Germany due to disproportionately high operating expenses,” <a href="https://www.gema.de/en/press/press-releases/press-releases-longform/article/statement-zu-den-vorwuerfen-von-grooveshark.html">says GEMA in a statement</a>.

“The fact is, as a service provider Grooveshark fundamentally refuses to pay compensation in any shape or form at all for the service. As of this writing, Grooveshark has also not contacted GEMA in any way.”

The statement goes on to refer to the lawsuits against Grooveshark from Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and EMI, as well as Apple and Google’s decisions to remove its native iPhone and Android apps from their respective stores.

Wow - getting pulled by Apple is nothing special, but pulled by <em>Google?</em> Grooveshark is starting to look like the digital equivalent of something on the bottom of businesses' shoes.

"Grooveshark, a popular digital music service that is being sued for copyright infringement by three of the four major record companies, now has problems with the one big label that it has a licensing deal with.

"On Wednesday, EMI Music Publishing filed suit against Grooveshark’s parent company, the Escape Media Group, for breach of contract, saying that since striking the deal in 2009, Escape has 'made not a single royalty payment to EMI, nor provided a single accounting statement.'”

Grooveshark is toast; all that remains is the question of how long it will take to curl up.