Popular music-streaming service Grooveshark got yanked from Google's Android Market over the weekend, and the firm isn't cheerful about it.
"Google told us on Saturday that it had private our app from the Market," Grooveshark's Ben Westermann-Clark told Wired.com in an interview, "but frankly, we're bewildered by this. We're always agreeable with DMCA regulations to ensure that you run inside of the law and apply oneself the wishes of calm owners."
Grooveshark wasn't on top of receiving a shot at Android's comparatively open app ecosystem, either. The firm released this statement:
Unlike Apple's iPhone ecosystem, Android is an open platform, and Google is traditionally a member of DMCA-compliant services "- indeed, Google itself relies on the DMCA is to really same insurance that Grooveshark does.
Google frequently champions its Android Market as open when vocalization of the platform. Unlike Apple, Android has no vetting routine is to apps that are submitted to the market. However, Google has private apps from the marketplace and even remotely deleted them from customers' phones when it's found apps that falsify themselves or that could be malicious.
Grooveshark waste in the dim as to precisely because it got ousted. All it knows is that the Recording Industry Association of America, a
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