So, very likely at the behest of lawyers threatening to sue Google (because suing people because you want their money is The New Work), the music streaming app GrooveShark has been yanked from the Android store... where it's been for a year and a half without incident.

The likely reason? GrooveShark dared to not cut deals with every record label to pay them money every time someone listens to their own goddamn mp3s.

In yet another round of "instead of doing something new and innovative, we'll simply demand money from the people who are already doing something new and innovative" music record labels feel comfortable "selling" people mp3s, but since they can't get people to buy mp3s that pay them every time they're listened to, they'll demand anyone who makes something you use to listen to them pay the label every time a user listens to the mp3 they "bought".

Lovely.

Big Copyright hinders innovation, part blah blah blah