Guruji Music Search review
By Aditya Mhatre at 17 January, 2009, 3:07 am
There is a huge void, which I have been noticing for quiet sometime regarding legal music download sites for Bollywood or Indian music. iTunes does have a many of the latest releases but I have experienced problems while trying to buy songs from India and recently Songs.pk which is an underground music piracy portal for bollywood music made news for being a part of Pakistan’s online warfare strategy against India. There were reports saying that the site installed trojans on computers, which then could be used as bots to send terror emails.
So where does one go to download Indian/Bollywood music? Enter Guruji.com’s Music Search. A quick search for “Slumdog Millionaire” on Guriji.com’s Music search page provides users (multiple) links to MP3 files that are hosted on servers around the world as well as an option to listen online.
There are similar sites that provide this service but most of them are underground sites that I wouldn’t trust logging onto but have no such fears while on Guruji. If you are wondering whether it’s legal for guruji to be doing this? – It is as long as Guruji doesn’t host the songs on its on server. It is not illegal for a website to index content provided by other websites. Moreover, Every search page carries a disclaimer.
Guruji.com Disclaimer
Now if only they could figure out a way to monetize these downloads, world would be a step closer to perfection. Also, let me end by saying that Write Stuff and I personally condemn piracy. I believe everyone should get paid for work they do.
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I didn’t quite get your point here. You are admitting songs.pk is a piracy site and should not be visited. And you are promoting Guruji Music download? When you are downloading from here, you are actually downloading from songs.pk … they are just giving you the link. So its equally bad, unethical and over everything else vulnerable. The only difference is that Guruji is hiding behind the gaps in law and a fine disclaimer.
Also you started your review stating a void in legal music download sites for Bollywood or Indian music. How come Guruji fill that space? For the end user songs.pk or Guruji music search, MP3 downloaded from both places are illegal.
I think its too mouth watering an option for a lot of person to give a site, which provides you easy pirated links, thumbs down.
Sumit: I am not promoting Guruji. The title of the post is “review”. Guruji offers options other than songs.pk to get songs.
Off course you are not promoting Guruji. I am sorry if my comment meant something like that. What I tried to mean is that most of the download links in Guruji are from the piracy sites. So how does this search engine fill in the void in legal music download sites for Bollywood or Indian music? Also is there really any difference between downloading from the piracy sites and Guruji? I mean from the end user point of view. Actually many people would not know they are downloading from pirated sites as Guruji itself is a legal site with its disclaimer in place. So I thought it would be better to mention in the review that the links are actually from that same pirated site mostly. Just sharing my opinion. And sorry again if it meant anything else.
“It is not illegal for a website to index content provided by other websites. Moreover, Every search page carries a disclaimer.”
Since you do bring this up here, your information is actually completely inaccurate on 2 legal fronts.
1. Guruji isnt simply “indexing” songs.pk data. It is manually editting the crawled data, nominating links and structuring the responses. This is NOT protected by any Internet statute anywhere including India. Manual massaging of data constitutes knowledge of data implicitly, and is not protected.
2. Regardles, once Guruji has been informed by the true IP owners (TSeries, Saregama and many others) that Songs.pk is pirating their IPR, Guruji IS obligated to remove all references to their content from their index within 48 hours.
The Internet laws protecting search engines aren’t blanket. Willful partnership with a thief is still considere theft.
Guruji.com is hiding behind its deep pockets thanks to Sequoia. Ironically the tier 1 VC fund would never dare to support such a venture in the US. They are basically gambling on the fact that we - the Indian audience and our courts - dont give a shit about our own people’s IP. Sad sad reflection on things.
Am not suggesting that filesharing networks will dissappear overnight. But atleast Songs.pk isnt claiming to be a legal business. Guruji is one worse than them in my mind. A sophisticated thief is still a thief…
Sir song is not direct download.
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