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p2pnet news | Music:- Seeqpod is a cool on-line search application.
You enter an artist —- here, Joni Mitchell — and almost instantly, up come videos and tunes.
Neat.
So now Warner Music Group is suing it, claiming it engages in "direct, contributory and vicarious infringement" .
The usual petty, mean-minded Big 4 BS which passes as a corporate business plan, in other words
According to Warner, Seeqpod is, "liable for making available on-demand and unauthorized digital public performances," says Billboard, going on:
"WMG also claims Seeqpod is using music to build up a large enough user base to start selling advertising, without compensating the label its use."
It also, "recently released an application for the iPhone and iPod Touch, allowing users to place an icon on their main screen that directly connects to the service and allows them to stream tracks from the various sources," says the story.
On its site, "We are passionate about search and discovery algorithms and believe that one day, everything on the Web will need to be ‘playable’," says Seeqpod , continuing >>>
So, we decided to apply some very sophisticated technology to ‘Playable Search’ so that anyone, anywhere can mine the deepest crevices and corners of the Web for media that is publicly available, yet it is not always so easy to find. These kinds of search results may include video, slideshows, audio, interactive presentations, Adobe Flash demonstrations, animated graphics, rich multimedia objects and other things in addition to simple text.
How did we do this? In the Life Sciences division at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory located in Berkeley, California, a special Search and Discovery algorithm was developed.
This algorithm mimics a portion of the process of human cognition, using technology which imitates the way the human brain associates things with one another.
This advanced search engine algorithm set and technology enabled biologists working at the Lab to discover hidden relationships in genomic data, enabling connections to be formed between human genes based on immense amounts of context and associations. It was observed that this technology could be applied to matching, searching and discovering relationships between any objects located on the Internet.
To move this effort forward, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory decided to take a 5% equity stake in an advanced search engine technology company now named SeeqPod, Inc.
Co-founded by Kasian Franks, Raf Podowski and Shekhar Lodha, SeeqPod is a totally different breed of search and discovery technology company. In addition to our Music search and discovery engine (in Beta), SeeqPod has plans to launch search and discovery engines within a variety of other verticals including Wiki, Video and Finance, with a focus on search results that are ‘playable’.
Our intelligent software robots work with targeted crawling systems to auto-submit links to content to the search index. This, combined with user URL submissions, results in a large and rich search and discovery index. This process can be viewed in real-time via the PodCrawler here www.seeqpod.com and here www.seeqpod.com/music.
Although we’re often associated with music sites because of our vast mp3 catalog, there is *much* more to SeeqPod than listening to your favorite tunes. In fact, SeeqPod Playable Search results are made up of a large variety of content, less than 5% of which are songs.
For example, most of SeeqPod’s Playable Search content can be broken down by the following types, including non-playable documents, 60% of which are made up of the following categories: 10% Video clips and interviews; 10% Images; 10% Generic audio clips; 5% Music; 2% Podcasts; 1% Slideshows; 1% Interactive Presentations (PPT); 1% Games; <1% Advertisements; <1% Lectures; 10% Third Party playable content (Sony BMG, YouTube API); 10% Miscellaneous. And of the General content pages found Webwide Wikipedia (10%) and Blogs (10%) comprise another 20%.
SeeqPod has provided public access to its technologies through a SeeqPod Media Search, Recommendation and Discovery Services (SMSRDS), REST-based API.
The SMSRDS API enables general search engines and third-party developers to easily integrate SeeqPod technologies into social networks, ad networks, and other consumer applications to improve their user’s experience in new and novel ways.
Stay tuned.
Also See:
Billboard - WMG Sues Music Search Site Seeqpod , January 23, 2008
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January 24th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
For some reason my comments are being censored because they I am a truth speaker! I pity you Jon. . .
January 24th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
^^ Based on the grammatical accuracy of the above post I’m wondering about pilot error more than censorship… I’ve seen plenty of posts that fly in the face of what Jon and this site are about. They have not been censored. IMHO Jon is open to reasoned opinions that differ from his own, and I’m sure he doesn’t need your pity. Who’s “truth” was that BTW?
January 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
I don’t ‘censor’ anything. I occasionally delete posts: if they’re gratuitously obscene; if whoever wrote it is obviously stoned out of his/her tiny skull, or something along those lines; if they’re obviously attempts at free advertising; or, if they’re uselessly repetitious, as with many of the Scientology posts. But I rarely delete anything and I certainly never chop anything just because I disagree with it.
So as the above ^^^ post says, maybe it was pilot error
Cheers!
January 24th, 2008 at 5:44 pm
I’ve been here for what seems like a long long time for on-line. I’ve disagreed with Jon from time to time, I’ve seen others do the same. Some far stronger in both word and thought.
I’ve seen indirect threats passed by without edit; the warmonger if you would. Something that would never pass in most places without edit or delete.
No one but no one wants the spammer. If that is what you came to do, you’re in the wrong place and it will never be taken well here or almost any forum on the web. Since I didn’t see the original post I have no clue if this is the case.
There is very little here that you have to worry about censoring if you are addressing the article or the topic. Heck get on your soapbox and whale away. I’ve even at times wandered completely off the topic yet not a peep about it.
If there is any one to be pitied in this, it will be from your own mistake. You don’t get censored here for no reason. If you use commonsense and respect, you can word it just about any way you please. If you can’t string the words together to make sense and give good account of yourself, the problem isn’t with Jon.
January 25th, 2008 at 5:17 am
I saw your coprorate shilling of [brand name deleted] yesterday.
It’s nothing but the same corporate crap under a different disquise.
How many true independents are featured there ?
You know who I mean .. totally non-label artists .. not the fake independents
that are really label owned.
How many ?
None i’ll wager.
That’s why the label fears offerings like seeqpod.
Independents sit right next to label offerings in searches,
to be heard and compared.
[brand name deleted] will change nothing.
it’s just more of the same.
Besides …
Free P2P is legal.
P2P software is legal.
Downloading music is legal, as long the the copyright holder allows it ..
Independents .. cc .. etc..
some of the folks who USE P2P use it for infringing purposes, but P2P is legal.
like the VCR, like DVD burners, like CD Burners.
The fact that you belch out the coporate lie in the same sentence as your shill
should steer any and all away from qtrax.
No revolution.
nothing to see.
January 25th, 2008 at 6:44 am
” it will change everything. ”
Naah,
it will change nothing, you know it, I know it, they know it too.
A very silly statement, considering downloading is in fact still legal in Canada.
Also silly considering the CRIA is not a legal authority or governing body …
or ARE they ?
January 25th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Six months from now when ad supported legal music is everywhere, including Yahoo’s big surprise for 2008 I will know I was right!
January 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am
If I can choose ad supported legal and or subscription buy and or rent why do I need to choose Frostwire when it is claimed legal by some and claimed not so by others. Until using Frostwire ect is the standard ALL can agree on as legal without question by anyone I will support it again 100% Until then I don’t like doubts and misgivings and not knowing by what authority it is “legal” as some claim. ( I mean all music not just “indie” ect. Any music I want.)
January 26th, 2008 at 6:35 am
” to choose Frostwire when it is claimed legal by some ”
By the government of canada .. part of the blank levy agreement.
Why else do you suppose NOONE has been sued in canada ?
” claimed not so by others. ”
by the RIAA and it’s paid shills, who cringe at the thought of fair use
and wish to elimate both it AND the first sale doctrine.
The lie oft repeated sounds good after a while, but STILL doesn’t make it true.
January 27th, 2008 at 3:56 am
” to choose Frostwire when it is claimed legal by some ”
When was Frostwire software declared illegal by anyone ?
Please cite sources.
January 27th, 2008 at 10:49 am
Good for them, I should send a Cheney quote to them, uhhh which quote, oh yeah “Go F Yourself”.
I’ll make sure they get the Cheney quote.