Comments on: Teen Muziic founder: Shawn Fanning is my hero

Odds are long that 15-year-old David Nelson can navigate past bigger competitors and a tangle of copyright laws. But he's betting YouTube will recognize a good thing when it sees one.

[AlexeiK]

Amazing kid, google should invest in this kid

[rtuinenburg]

The YouTube API has build in ads, no developer can disable the ads using the API. Just because you used the muziic software and viewed some videos and did not see ads, does not mean the ads were removed by muziic, it simply means that particular videos did not carry any ads on them.

[remingtonmetro]

For ingenuity great kudos to 15 year old David Nelson. For ethics on the other hand, no so much. I did download the app and was not impressed but I am not within the catergory of people who seek to download music and videos without compensating writers, artists, performers and copyright holders. Beyond reducing the size of the video, I did not see the purpose. I do believe there is a button on the app that is connected to a "buy song" feature which is apparently how the developer will profit.

Again, I give high kudos for the development and ingenuity of this application, however that is more than offset by failing to request persmission of YouTube and Copyright holders to 'pirate'.