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I thought this article was quite interesting, it came from Our Digital Music and it talks about a website called PiraBoogle.com.  PiraBoogle is a quite interesting mashup of Google and PirateBay, as you can also tell from the name and logo. PiraBoogle uses Googles own in house tools to provide results on finding easy-to-use Torrent searching. Users can simply type in a song or artist and within seconds it brings back the search results on all available torrents.

The developers were quoted saying, “We thought it fun to showcase how easy it is to provide a really easy-to-use Torrent file search engine with Google’s own tools given all the recent coverage about PirateBay.org being sued and Yahoo removing PirateBay from its search results”.

Now, how does PiraBoogle differ to Seeqpod? Seeqpod is currently being sued by Warner Music, where they allege “SeeqPod directly infringes Plaintiffs’ copyrighted works, including by making on-demand and unauthorized digital public performances of those works. SeeqPod secondarily infringes Plaintiffs’ copyrights under the well-established doctrines of contributory, vicarious and inducement liability”.