SeeqPod Going Six Feet Under?

TechCrunch broke the news on March 31st that my favorite music site was going six feet under. Pandora’s great and all and I listen to it quite a bit but SeeqPod is awesome because you can look up and play tracks on demand. Apparently music labels such as Warner, Capital and EMI no likey that. The labels slapped SeeqPod with a multi-billion dollar lawsuit. I mean really. The big three are trying to make an example of this little gem of a site by even going after developers who are using the SeeqPod API.

So what’s the beef? SeeqPod is basically a search engine that crawls the internet for music and video files. It doesn’t host any of the content, it just gives you search results. Another nifty feature is that it let’s you create a playlist which you can save, share with friends, or embed in your site. I guess the problem is that SeeqPod doesn’t filter out any pirated songs. Does Google filter out all pirated material?

Once again, the music labels are digging another grave in their music startup cemetary. They need to hire some creative thinkers who can figure out the future of the music industry for them. It seems like they’re fighting a losing battle and are making desperate attempts to wring out money from popular music sites. I wonder how large the slice of their revenue pie comes from lawsuits? It can’t be that sustainable, can it?

So who else will R.I.P. because of SeeqPod’s eventual demise? Songbeat, Steamzy, Songerize and I don’t know who else. Whether these sites will be reincarnated into something else will be determined. But for now, this is what I say to you, SeeqPod, and to all those other awesome music sites out there…

http://www.seeqpod.com/search/?plid=719f23a8cc

That’s a little taste of what SeeqPod offered us lovers out there. Sorry, it’s a link to the playlist because apparently .wordpress doesn’t support the embed option.

SeeqPod

May 5, 2005 to who knows

Please share any great music sites past and present that have been effected by the music label lawsuit pandemic. And any sites that we can all comfort ourselves with in their absence. Thanks!