SAN FRANCISCO — Lawyers scurried to San Jose bankruptcy court Tuesday afternoon to argue over the remains of SeeqPod Inc., the first big casualty on the newest front in the legal war between the record industry and the Internet.
The Emeryville startup doesn’t host music, like Napster did; it’s a search engine that lets users find music online and listen to it on Seeqpod.com. But last week, facing mounting legal bills from two copyright infringement suits, SeeqPod filed for bankruptcy. Warner Music Group filed one of the suits against SeeqPod, and record label EMI filed the other — each seeking $150,000 for every infringing play of their songs.
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