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Thread: Audio Search Engine Legal ?
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02-26-2008, 09:03 AM #1Web Hosting Evangelist
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Audio Search Engine Legal ?
Hi,
One of our customers are asking if they could host an audio search engine. The script will search for external mp3 and present them to the user to download. No copyrighted content will be hosted on our servers.
Is this considered legal in the US?
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02-26-2008, 09:11 AM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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Well google does that too. Search engines I believe, have the right to post up anything it finds as long as it's not AIMED to find illegal audio files.
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02-26-2008, 09:40 AM #3Web Hosting Evangelist
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but the files are being streamed through our servers, so isn't it a bit different?
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02-26-2008, 10:52 AM #6Junior Guru Wannabe
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Exactly^^
I thought you meant it just links to the Audio then your consumer goes to that page and listens to it there. I wouldn't encourage streaming it from your own server honestly.
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02-26-2008, 11:10 AM #7Disabled
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From what I understand it’s an audio search engine the user enters what they want it searches and then it returns the results to the end user, and then the user can listen to them or download them it isn’t actually on the server its pulled from another site / search engine so I don’t know what the problem could be or is? E.g http://iwanttracks.com/
another e.g http://iwanttracks.com/index.php?search=BoNjovi
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02-26-2008, 11:26 AM #8Retired Moderator
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That streaming thing is strange. Why would they want to essentially waste so much bandwidth? Are you sure they plan to do that?
If it's an automated search engine, I don't really see it as a big risk. As said, google can be used for the same purpose. Its spider should, at the very least, follow robots.txt though.
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02-26-2008, 01:31 PM #9Web Hosting Evangelist
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thanks everyone!
The script searches only for audio files, e.g. mp3, wma ...
as for the streaming thing, I don't know why would they want to do it honestly. I will need to get some more info.
If the script would be just pointing to external files, will the situation be different?
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02-26-2008, 02:14 PM #10Disabled
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02-27-2008, 06:31 AM #11Web Hosting Evangelist
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02-27-2008, 10:15 AM #12Disabled
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it's Legal for you though, maybe not for those actually hosting the files.