{"id":2152,"date":"2008-01-25T16:30:56","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T21:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/25\/warner-when-in-doubt-sue-someone\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T16:30:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T21:30:56","slug":"warner-when-in-doubt-sue-someone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/01\/25\/warner-when-in-doubt-sue-someone\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner: When in doubt, sue someone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has the details on a lawsuit that Warner Music has launched against Seeqpod<\/a>, a music search engine that has become popular over the past few months — largely because it is super-fast, and allows users to play songs directly in their browser after they find them. Songza.com is another similar music-search engine, although the user interface is much more stripped down (it was developed by Aza Raskin, the 24-year-old son of legendary Apple designer Jef Raskin), and it recently announced a deal<\/a> with Seeqpod.<\/p>\n

As Fred notes in his post, this lawsuit<\/a> is just the latest attempt<\/a> by the music and content industries to go after anything that functions as a search engine, on the argument that if they allow people to search for copyright-infringing files then they are contributing to that copyright infringement (which was the central point of the Napster and Grokster cases). What makes Seeqpod.com and Songza a little different is that they actually allow you to play the file, even though it resides somewhere else.<\/p>\n

It will be interesting to see where this one goes, if only because it has implications not just for search engines but also for other music-related services, such as the Yahoo Music built-in mp3 player the company launched not long ago<\/a> — part of Yahoo exec Ian Rogers’ vision of a distributed music network that finds content wherever it is and makes it playable. There are other services as well, including G2p.org, that let you find music easily (and I just found another one about 10 minutes ago called FindTheTunes.com). Can the record industry stop them all?<\/p>\n

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Fred von Lohmann of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has the details on a lawsuit that Warner Music has launched against Seeqpod, a music search engine that has become popular over the past few months — largely because it is super-fast, and allows users to play songs directly in their browser after they find them. Songza.com … <\/p>\n

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