RouteNote Blog » seeqpod http://routenote.com/blog The World of Music Licensing and Distribution Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:51:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 SongBeat: The New Music Piracy Tool That Will End Up Closing Soon Enough! http://routenote.com/blog/songbeat-the-new-music-piracy-tool-that-will-end-up-closing-soon-enough/ http://routenote.com/blog/songbeat-the-new-music-piracy-tool-that-will-end-up-closing-soon-enough/#comments Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:46:15 +0000 Finchy http://routenote.com/blog/?p=324 In the current climate P2P and Bittorrent file sharing isnt seen as illegal in all countries, but overall it has to be the biggest threat on the music industry because of its nature.

Songbeat has launched a new version of their service which seems to be taking piracy to a new level.

It’s a desktop app that lets users search for music on Seeqpod, Project Playlist, Last.fm and other sites, and then download the files and import them into iTunes or Windows Media Player, or burn them as a CD. It’s free in its basic edition, which only allows 25 downloads, but users have to pay €19.99 for the premium version to download as much as they want.

This has to be illegal! They are now a company that is profiting directly from piracy. Not according to Songbeat: “The downloading of music is not fundamentally illegal. However, it lies in the hands of the user to discern whether or not they have the right to download the particular music file at hand.” Even Musically thinks this’ll end up in court.
(via TechCrunch)

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