Bloggers Cover Grokster's Shut Down

Posted on November 7, 2005

Gadget and tech blogs are covering Grokster's shut down. The peer-to-peer software company closed after settling a piracy case with movie and music companies. A message on Grokster now reads: "There are legal services for downloading music and movies. This service is not one of them. Grokster hopes to have a safe and legal service available soon."

PaidContent says this notice may mean that a rumored buyout by Mashboxx could be true. This all sounds similar to the Napster shut down and then eventual relaunch as a legal music download service. Grokster has a website for a new P2P service at Grokster3G.com.

Gadgetopia writes, "Grokster downloading service shuts down: Another one bites the dust. After they lost the Supreme Court ruling, there wasn't much left to do, I guess."

The ACSBlog blog notes that the old Grokster website "cheerfully proclaimed the helpfulness of Grokster in allowing users to 'publish and share your music and movies with the world.'"

Doesn't Groklaw sound like the type of website that might have something about Grokster's shutdown? They did in June so they might again later today.