Warner Music Sues Emeryville Based Music Search Engine Seeqpod

Warner Music Group is suing Emeryville, California-based SeeqPod. Other music search engines have been getting the same treatment from the major labels.

"SeeqPod searches for a particular type off content -- music--that SeeqPod knows is overwhelmingly copyrighted. The results that SeeqPod returns are links -- many of which SeeqPod itself solicits from is users -- to sites containing unauthorized and illegal copies of copyrighted music," according to the federal court lawsuit. (.pdf) "With simple clicks of a computer mouse, SeeqPod will play the work without authorization; will add it to a user's 'playlist' collection; will give the user the link where an unauthorized copy may be downloaded; and will embed the link on social-networking sites, like MySpace and Facebook, where the entire cycle of willful copyright infringement is repeated without end."

Via: Wired