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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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:06PM (2 children)
> Someone else has a beef against you and "works with" the people who made your car? Your car won't start.
Someone else has a beef against you and "works with" the people who made your car? Your car waits until there are no people on board, then drives itself to the repo lot.
FTFY
(Score: 2, Interesting) by anubi on Sunday June 17 2018, @12:53PM (1 child)
Actually, I see that as quite a plausible thing for them to do. Once they have it in their power to do it, would not surprise me at all to see it happen.
I am pretty sure that if video piracy wasn't all that common, it would be impossible to watch a commercially sold DVD without all the interstitial ads one has to tolerate now on TV. Mopney talks. And its hard for a DVD producer not to listen to a man thrusting handfuls of cash at him for inserting unskippable ads. But I think the DVD producers know full good and well if they take advantage of their "we won't let you skip this part" technology to insert unskippable ads, piracy will just explode in popularity, likely placing all their hard-won lobbied-for DMCA law into jeopardy as their wooed law-makers have to face a large constituency of people pirating.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 3, Informative) by requerdanos on Sunday June 17 2018, @02:55PM
No, it's common practice for many studios to put unskippable advertisements on their DVDs, especially advertisements for other videos that they sell. Disney is especially bad at this.
If you think they know better than to abuse this power for unskippable commercials, you are mistaken.
If you think that such arrogant and offensive conduct would jeopardize DMCA protection, you are apparently mistaken there as well, as the DMCA doesn't appear to be in jeopardy.
Wikipedia for User Operation Prohibition [wikipedia.org], The DVD and blu-ray code phrase for DRM-enforced unskippable content:
It's a thing.