Find your own darn tunes
Somehow this does not surprise me:
SeeqPod, the bankrupt streaming MP3 search engine currently being sued for copyright infringement by several major labels, went offline over the weekend but is reportedly close to announcing a buyout by “a large media company” that is “a competitor to Apple,” according to MP3Newswire. SeeqPod CEO Kasian Franks told MP3Newswire that the site is offline because it is “in the process of moving a few servers due to an acquisition by a media company.” Emeryville, Calif.-based SeeqPod declared bankruptcy on March 31.
Aren’t they all competitors to Apple, really?
I have to admit, I’ll miss the little jukebox: while it was up and running, I got to listen to a lot of stuff I might not have heard otherwise, and its lack of an obvious Save button apparently did not ward off the industry’s hounds.
(An encounter with SeeqPod and its Songerize front-end here.)
