SeeqPod IS YouTube for Music

I've been following SeeqPod's development and growth trajectory since it launched a couple of years ago and my first reaction of the service back then still holds true today.
SeeqPod = YouTube for Music.

Much like YouTube, SeeqPod was the next great company that cast aside copyright fears, and simply built the best darn music search engine in the world, period. Unlike YouTube, which relied heavily on their users to upload content (legal or otherwise) to one central place, SeeqPod recognized that almost all music was already out there floating in cyberspace, being posted on blogs, sitting on obscure servers, or on YouTube itself. In other words, the Googleization of music was an unstoppable force, SeeqPod knew it, and they were the first polished venture to recognize what was missing - a refined, feature-rich interface for the vast array of the internet's fragmented music files. Sure, you could find just about any song using Google and some of their 'advanced' search parameters. But using Google to find music was messy, much like a 'junk drawer', somebody needed to come along and organize it better, and nobody has nailed music search as well as SeeqPod.

Comparisons and parallels to YouTube are warranted on so many levels with respect to SeeqPod. For example, much like YouTube - SeeqPod is being sued by a clueless large media company and while YouTube may ultimately have to reach some form of settlement with Viacom (although that is looking less likely with a recent court victory for YouTube), SeeqPod should eventually be able to quash Warner's claim outright at some point. Because SeeqPod doesn't actually host any content themselves and are merely linking to the content - Warner would essentially have to argue that all search engines including Google, Yahoo etc. are liable for illegal music freely found on their search engines. Not only is Warner's suit against SeeqPod a guaranteed loser, it also smacks of censorship. Think about it. If Google was held liable for anything illegal found via their search engine, 'search on the web' as we know it, would die. It wouldn't surprise me if Kasian, Raf and Shekhar (SeeqPod's founders) actually cheered when the legal docs from Warner arrived - it was confirmation of their leadership position and the prolific utility of their service. One final parallel to YouTube / SeeqPod - when will Google buy them? It's only a matter of time, and the price tag could easily be north of a billion at some point in the not too distant future if SeeqPod continues to innovate and grow as they've been doing.

That same aforementioned clueless media company is continuing to be, well, clueless. Now Warner Music would like consumers to pay a music tax to their ISP. I guess the old adage is indeed true - 'you can't teach an old dog new tricks'.

Meanwhile, SeeqPod just keeps getting better.

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