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Joe Mullin-May 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM UTC

Just a few days after the illegal music streaming service Grooveshark apologized and shut down, a mysterious person called "Shark" rebuilt the site on Grooveshark.io.

In response, the major record company appears to have obtained a temporary restraining order to seize the domain name. According to Torrentfreak, these labels filed a seal lawsuit in federal court in New York. The website reported that U.S. District Judge Deborah Batts issued a seizure order "against website operators, hosting service providers, and domain name registrar NameCheap."

NameCheap seems to be compliant soon, and the grooveshark.io URL no longer works.

Torrentfreak released part of a letter from a record company lawyer to the CEO of NameCheap, informing him of their lawsuit and the actions NameCheap needs to take. Neither the letter nor the related new lawsuits are available in the public court database.

The letter added that restraining orders, seizure orders, and reasons explaining orders “may not be provided to the defendant or published in any way”.

At the same time, a real mole game seems to have begun, and the team behind the new Grooveshark told Torrentfreak that they just moved their website to grooveshark.vc.

The anonymous operator of the site said: "The tougher you are against us, the stronger we will be. Now after this blow, we are more determined than ever to keep Grooveshark alive and continue to kick."

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