Songbeat

Songbeat Goes Offline in Midst of Warner Copyright Case

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 26, 2009 - 11:15am.
Hamburg, Germany - Songbeat, a German music stream search engine and downloading application, has taken itself offline temporarily in the midst of a copyright lawsuit filed by Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), TechCrunch reported. "So we have sent Songbeat away to enter the 36 Shaolin Chambers of Software Kung Fu. Once it has finished its training it will be back and better than ever," reads a note on the company's website.

Warner Music Sues Web Music Service Songbeat

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 6, 2009 - 6:50am.
Hamburg, Germany - Songbeat, the provider of a desktop music application that aggregates songs from streaming music sites, and allows users to download some of them, has been sued by Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG) for copyright infringement, TechCrunch reported.

Songbeat Launches Stream-Recording Application

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on December 3, 2008 - 1:29pm.

Berlin - Songbeat on Wednesday announced the official launch of its music discovery and download service, which records streaming versions of songs offered on free services like SeeqPod, Project Playlist and Last.fm to a user's computer and can automatically sync them into an iTunes library. The basic version of the application allows 25 free downloads, while a premium version with unlimited downloads costs $29.99. The questionably-legal service offers this caveat to users: "It is your responsibility to ascertain whether any copyright, patent or other licenses are necessary and to obtain any such licenses to serve and/or create, compress or download such media and content."

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