Songbeat: Making music piracy easier than ever?
While illegal P2P file-sharing is still seen as the biggest threat to the music industry, other forms of online piracy are coming up on the inside. Take a look at the new version of an application called Songbeat, for example.
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.
Isn’t this illegal? 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.” Something tells us this’ll end up in court.
(via TechCrunch)
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December 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
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December 7th, 2008 at 4:51 am
If you compare this to copyrighted text on Web pages, this application does nothing more than any Web browser. It lets you search, copy and download information. Only the user can do something illegal WITH it. I think that Songbeat has a point.
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