SeeqPod

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SeeqPod, Inc.
Type Private
Founded July, 2005
Headquarters Flag of the United StatesEmeryville, CA US
Key people Kasian Franks, Founder
Raf Podowski, Founder
Shekhar Lodha, Founder
Industry Search engine
Website www.seeqpod.com

SeeqPod is a search engine specifically for indexing and finding playable search results including audio, video & podcasts that are publicly accessible on the World Wide Web.[1] It reportedly has an index of 8 million songs. [2]

While SeeqPod claims its music search technology is legal because it doesn't actually host any files (the Digital Millennium Copyright Act has a provision that protects search engines from charges of copyright infringement when they return potentially infringing results), the search engine has been sued by Warner Music Group, arguing in part that "SeeqPod searches for a particular type of content -- music -- that SeeqPod knows is overwhelmingly copyrighted. The results that SeeqPod returns are links -- many of which SeeqPod itself solicits from users -- to sites containing unauthorized and illegal copies of copyrighted music."[3]

[edit] References

  1. ^ ReadWriteWeb - SeeqPod Music and Recommendation Search Engine
  2. ^ TechCrunch - Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line
  3. ^ Warner Music Group's Complaint against SeeqPod, Listening Post from Wired.com, EmailJanuary 25, 2008.

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