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I'm curious to know what will happen with all the user data on their systems. There was a site floating around which allowed you to access your playlist information just by entering your account email. I assume that was old public data.

And with services like this, is there any threat to users who access 'illegal' material?

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I thought I read that the site pulled the info from the browser's local storage.

EDIT: which they obviously shouldn't be able to do. So they probably scraped it, right.

A different domain can't possibly access the local storage for grooveshark.com right?

You are correct.

Good point. People discussed different ways to get to the parts stored in localstorage, but that obviously only should work locally. Since Groovebackup got shutdown as well we can't check what they did.

You can still go to grooveshark.com and see your localStorage.

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