 "Copyright, Schmopyright": TechCrunch runs down "royalty free" music sites ·Nov 29, 12:47 PM From TechCrunch: “Music search engines are just one of the many ways to get free music on the Internet… But for some users they are a near perfect way to listen to music on demand, and/or round out their music collection. “Three that we’ve been tracking are SeeqPod, Songza , and Skreemr. “All three index the web, or parts of the web, looking for music files that people have uploaded to servers. Users search by artist or song. MP3s or other non-DRM sound files with metadata matching the query are served as results. “Unlike sites like LaLa, Imeem and Pandora (and many others), which are all trying to play by various RIAA rules to deliver music to users, music search engines generally don’t pay royalties of any kind… “Copyright, Schmopyright”“There’s no reason to mince words here – the music these sites are playing is almost always copyright infringing. But it’s distributed on servers unaffiliated with the search engine itself, making it effectively impossible for the RIAA and its international equivalents to do much about it other than try to force the largest infringers to remove the content. That’s because there is little recourse against the search engines themselves… “So for now the search engines are free to link to infringing songs, and even stream them on their site. Just so long as the songs themselves are never stored on their servers. That’s good news for Deezer, Seeqpod and Skreemr, and the users who’ve come to rely on them.” Read the entire article at TechCrunch. share: del.icio.us.  Reddit  Digg  Yahoo  Wink  Windows  Google  Newsvine 
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