Just Hear It: New Music Streaming Search Engine That Claims To Be Legal
In the last week or so we have been really taking a keen focus on music streaming service and even posted a specific review about MixTurtle. Today we have come across yet another music streaming service that might be worth a look. This new streaming service is called Just Hear It. Just Hear It has been created by two college students Nicolae Ivanescu and Cosmin Panait.
Just Hear It is very similar to MixTurtle, Seeqpod and Songza. It lets the user search for tracks that are online and add them to a playlist. Just Hear It claims to be completely legal, following DMCA guidelines, and paying royalties to all of the major performing-rights organizations, like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. In the future, Just Hear It aims to negotiate licenses to share revenue with labels.
After playing around with the site it still seems to have the same issues as Seeqpod and Songza, every now and then you will find the track that you want to listen to, but it simply wont play or the file is corrupted or incomplete. Im not really too sure if there is anything more annoying than setting up your playlist and half the songs playing.
However, because Just Hear It claims to be completely legal, I’m very curious to see how this business develops. They need to have a very strong business model and I’m guessing that will be based on advertising revenues.
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Hey Steven,
Thanks for the article ! We’re really excited about the buzz created right before the actual Beta Launch.
At justhearit, we love music and we believe that piracy is theft and that artists, labels, and publishers and writers have the right to get paid for their work. This is why we pay royalties to the performing rights organizations and we aim to negotiate licenses to share our revenue with the labels.
In addition, by sharing revenue fairly and allying directly with the music industry, we can obtain superior quality content, exclusive releases, cross-promotional benefits from the industry itself, and transition piracy worldwide into just and fair profit on a scale never before possible.
Streaming the content directly from the labels would certainly solve the issue you pointed out above. We believe this would be our advantage against bitTorrents and P2P Networks and this is truly what will make people stop stealing music and start hearing it.
Cheers,
Nicu