Warner Music decided to sue Seeqpod a little while ago.  Now EMI is not only suing Seeqpod, its suing this guy Ryan Sit who has developed a number of sites using the Seeqpod API.  EMI is alleging that both Seeqpod and Ryan are not just extracting songs that are illegally hosted on the thousand plus music blogs out there, but that Seeqpod and Ryan are also temporary storing the files, which I would agree is very illegal, and could definitely bring all of the alleged sites down.

But even if Seeqpod was doing this, which I doubt, Ryan would have been doing so unknowingly.  Then, even if it does turn out that Seeqpod was temporarily storing these files, Ryan would only be building on their API, and the fact that he is one of the hundreds of developers doing so, and has thus been singled out, is crazy.

EMI is basically punishing Ryan for being a very, very good develop.

Just my two cents.

In the meantime, I’ve got a music blog that uses a seeqpod widget on almost every post.   Let’s hope that EMI doesn’t deem that I’m storing files.