Warner Music Group has just sued music search engine SeeqPod. For those unfamilar SeeqPod is a music search engine that also allows users to stream music from the site once they have found the song. According to the EFF(they also have the complaint available if you’re interested), the SeeqPod case is unique because it is the first to test how DMCA safe harbors, rules that protect hosting services and search engines from copyright violation on their site(assuming they comply with takedown notices), directly apply to search engines(as opposed to cases against YouTube, MP3Tunes.com, Veoh, and PornoTube, which are hosters of content).

The EFF seems to think that copyright owners are trying to change the rules in court, since they have become dissatisfied with the notice-and-takedown bargain of the DMCA.

It is potential that this case will settle, like Warner’s case versus iMeem did, and there is another case on remand, Perfect 10 v. Google, that could also settle the DMCA safe harbor issue, but the real question people are asking themselves in all of this is, what’s the best alternate music search engine?

Well thankfully I have the answer for you, Woonz. Its all the search engine of all the rest, and it does it without recording your IP address, and we can all see the potential benefit to that, especially down the road.

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