Seeqpod is Down Dut Not Out Just Yet
Here at Crenk we have talked about music streaming service Seeqpod a huge amount. Seeqpod was a music streaming search engine in which users could search for tracks in the same way at searching on Google. Once finding the track they wanted to play they could add it to a playlist.
Seeqpod indexed music files from all over the internet. However last month the filed for bankruptcy and since Friday of last week they have been offline. “SeeqPod is in the process of moving a few servers… We’ll be back up shortly”, said SeeqPod CEO Kasian Franks on Sunday.
Seeqpod is in acquistion talks with “a large media company that was a competitor to Apple” according to MP3 Newswire. Any suitor would have to be willing to get involved with several pending rights holder lawsuits against the company.
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I did a post on Friday, hours before they went down explaining that I thought the reason they were losing money was nothing to do with the lawsuits, and more to do with bandwidth charges.
This would seem to be corroborated by the “moving servers” story. level 3 pulled the plug on their bandwidth.
My analysis is here http://blog.san1t1.com/2009/04/no-wonder-seeqpod-are-in-trouble.html