SeeqPod
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Search engine |
| Founded | July, 2005 |
| Headquarters |  Emeryville, CA US |
Key people | Kasian Franks, Founder Raf Podowski, Founder Shekhar Lodha, Founder |
| 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]
References
- ^ ReadWriteWeb - SeeqPod Music and Recommendation Search Engine
- ^ TechCrunch - Music Search Engines Tread Fine Legal Line
- ^ Warner Music Group's Complaint against SeeqPod, Listening Post from Wired.com, EmailJanuary 25, 2008.
External links
- SeeqPod
- SeeqPod Mobile
- SeeqPod Suit Thoughts - Comments on Warner Music Group's lawsuit against SeeqPod
- PC World - Five Ways to Share Music Without Getting Sued
- Macworld - Seeq and ye shall find
- Programmable Web - SeeqPod API
- Mashable - SeeqPod is an Active Music Search & Discovery Tool