I used to be angry at them for pulling things like this but now feel a little sorry for them.

They are like the bully from high school who graduates and finds himself at McDonalds while the nerds he used to pick on go on to change the world.

So, while Seeqpod servers arent’t touched at all in the streaming process – client flash (or javafx, or silverlight, or – gasp – HTML5 – players go straight to the source server – they DO download and store (albeit temporarily, in RAM probably, but this makes little difference) the files they index.

This is murky terroritory. With torrent files, the original source – the copyright content – need never touch the tracker. With music indexing, where the web is grepped, the copyright content does touch the indexing server, even if it’s not involved in the final download.

Seeqpod makes it very possible to search for and download mp3 files, even if their client, and most clients of their API (not that anyone needs it, just hack their Ajax calls, higher quality results too). One could rebuild something with similar functionality to AudioGalaxy out of Seeqpod pretty easy.

Nevertheless. The major labels of the music industry should shed their supply chain assets while so few remain, and concentrate on the money makers remaining, like merchandise, gigs, and personal appearances.

Majors have gone from prevalence to irrelevance. Even their employees see that. Who themselves remind me of that George Clinton Pfunk phrase “America Eats its Young” because they (majors) are purging themselves of their most talented people by mistreating and firing them.

You dont stop a virus from spreading in your body by bloodletting. 19th century medics proved that with the multiple deaths.

Again its the major section. Think of it like IBM getting mad and suing someone. Though historically known, how much do they really matter in today’s TechCrunch world?

So next time the major labels AKA “grampa simpson” says “the creek run dry” respond by going to the faucet and handing them a glass of water, patting them on the head and leading back to bed.