An alleged clone of notorious copyright-infringing digital music service Grooveshark has surfaced online.

Grooveshark is now being hosted at Grooveshark.io, reports The Verge. The cloned site's creator, who goes under the pseudonym Shark, told the website they started backing up Grooveshark after suspecting that it was about to go offline.

"I was connected to Grooveshark a few years back and I have, together with the team I've gathered, the knowledge and the technological abilities to bring it back ...