However, this does not mean that Grooveshark is now free and in the clear. It’s still in plenty of hot water with its legal battles, so the actual library of songs available through the music streaming service may get more or less limited as time goes on. That said, at least the app is back and that helps Grooveshark maintain a certain level of mindshare among consumers.

“We’re delighted that the official Grooveshark app has been reinstated,” said Grooveshark in an official statement. “We look forward to continuing to build a relationship with Android and leverage this fantastic platform for our partners.”

This should build on the victory Grooveshark had in a New York court about two months ago. Universal argued that the safe harbor provisions in the DMCA didn’t apply to recordings before 1972. The judge disagreed and said that it wasn’t Grooveshark’s responsibility to determine the copyright status of pre-1972 recordings.

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Looks like there’s more than one group that wants to set up the pirate Internet. The Pirate Bay has been constantly bombarded with all kinds of legal battles surrounding the sharing of copyright material, so it looks like they’re going to circumvent the problem by sending some GPS-controlled drones over international waters and hosting part of the site there.

Sound crazy? Yeah, a little, but it starts to make a lot of sense if you stop to think about it. By hovering portions of the site over international waters and having the ability to move these drones around, it’s a heck of a lot harder for authorities to take down these “pirates” for good. The plans aren’t concrete yet, but they are working on “sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air.”

They’ll still need to rely on land-based data centers for a lot of the heavy lifting, but according to The Pirate Bay’s blog, the “Low Orbit Server Stations (LOSS) are just the first attempt. With modern radio transmitters we can get over 100Mbps per node up to 50km away. For the proxy system we’re building, that’s more than enough.”

Puts a whole new meaning to “going to the cloud,” don’t you think?  So what’s stopping the US Government or even Warner Bros. from building weaponized anti-pirate drone fighters?

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In the first part of the guest post, The Pirate Bay’s “Winston” points out the error in thinking by the RIAA’s Mitch Glazier when it comes to copyright “theft.” In Winston’s mind, theft is when person A takes something from person B, so that person B no longer has it. By contrast, if you copy the something, both people still have it and that’s the fundamental idea behind torrenting. The copyright owners still own to the copyright.

He also talks about how jobs aren’t being “stolen” in the US, but rather the technology and music industries need to “evolve” into a more modern form. “Sorry, it’s 2012 not 1912,” as Winston puts it. He also talks about how the RIAA is trying to enforce US-based laws where it really has no jurisdiction. We have to wonder how all of this is going to turn out, since we’re even in a different world than that of the original Napster.

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