EMI has filed a lawsuit against SeeqPod, the MP3 search engine which lets you play tracks found on a search through its own player.
Although SeeqPod's owners claim they are just a search engine which offers a useful content preview function - ie the player - which is technically speaking true, in reality the website provides a user-friendly one-stop player that taps into numerous illegal sources of music files (as well as some legal ones) for its content.
Warner started legal action against the service way back in January 2008. EMI's action not only sues SeeqPod directly, it also names its CEO, founder and a major investor, Shekhar Lodha of eSynergi Ventures, in its legal papers. Not only that, but they are also suing another service called Favtape, which utilises SeeqPod technology to deliver music content.
A spokesperson for SeeqPod said they still believe their service is legal, and that they will continue to operate and fight the action against them.