Project Playlist Pushes The Line Between Music Search And Music Hosting
If there is a poster child for the battered Web music startup, Project Playlist is it. The company had to fight lawsuits from the record labels , is still trying to iron out licensing deals with those labels, lost its last CEO Owen van Natta to MySpace, lost its CFO Mike Sheridan , and by the looks of it is losing its audience . What else could go wrong? Well, it looks like the self-styled music search engine is actually hosting MP3s of major label artists via content delivery networks such as Limelight. If you search for Britney Spears songs, for example, the second result is “(You Drive Me) Crazy.” The originating site where the MP3 was hosted, http://www.sarzamin.org/ , is no longer available. But not to worry because Project Playlist cached the song on its CDN, Limelight Networks. Khalid Shaikh, a TechCrunch reader and developer who wanted to harness Project Playlist to create his own music site, discovered this arrangement and sent me the screencast above to prove it. In the video, Shaikh speculates on the legality of…
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