Submitted via IRC for BoyceMagooglyMonkey
The music industry sees stream ripping as one of the largest piracy threats, worse than torrent sites or direct download portals.
The RIAA, IFPI, and BPI showed that they're serious about the issue when they filed legal action against YouTube-MP3, the largest stream ripping site at the time.
This case eventually resulted in a settlement where the site, once good for over a million daily visitors, agreed to shut down voluntarily last year.
YouTube-MP3's demise was a clear victory for the music groups, which swiftly identified their next targets, putting them under pressure, both in public and behind the scenes.
This week this appears to have taken its toll on several 'stream ripping' sites, which allowed users to download videos from YouTube and other platforms, with the option to convert files to MP3s.
Source: https://torrentfreak.com/youtube-download-sites-throw-in-the-towel-under-legal-pressure-180614/
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @08:58AM (2 children)
"People who do not find ways of circumventing others controlling them will spend their days tolerating all sorts of time consuming crap. And find themselves compelled to do all sorts of things they really did not want to do or agree to."
I come to Soylent for this kind of incisive insight, which describes more than just this specific instance. Thanks for it, and for your first-person perspective on tech-driven social changes spanning over half a century.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @09:16AM (1 child)
I do not come here to post useless rants...
If that is all I am doing, annoying others, I will cut it out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:29PM
Mea culpa.. replied to the wrong post... I meant to reply to a lengthy offtopic diatribe I posted about cellphones and batteries. Admittedly, it was offtopic, but it was something that has been bugging me and I needed to spew some indignation over it.