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Will Google Uphold its "Do No Evil" Motto With Muziic?

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Mar 09, 2009

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Going beyond traditional media players, teen developer David Nelson has created Muziic Player, an application that harnesses the power of YouTube to offer music lovers around the globe access to the world's largest searchable database of songs.

Self described as "a free and legal" application, Muziic lets you stream music from YouTube without ever again having to visit the site. And therein lies the rub. Could this legal application be seen as not so legal by Google?

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"It's really the first 100% free, legal method for listening to digital music," said 15-year-old Nelson in a press release. "Typically, free music services are not completely legal; on the other hand, legal music services are not usually free," he said.

We downloaded the application and had a quick look. It's an easy to use media player that looks great, and has much the same functionality as other media players; it lets you build playlists, organize songs etc., but has one enormous advantage over others: its media catalog is YouTube.

The inner workings however, appear to be what makes t

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Comments (1)

Davidconnell,

Mar 09, 2009

OK, I don't really care about the whole free and legal bit, but being able to dream music from YouTube is great. So much amazing live stuff on YouTube. THis is killer.