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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: 4, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Sunday June 17 2018, @05:43PM (2 children)
In a strange way I hope the RIAA and pals keep it up. I envision a dystopia future where NOBODY possesses or listens to music because it is "too dangerous". What was once an integral part of humanity is now locked up in a vault and never leaves. Siting in front of that vault, shaking and starving, long since out of crack and hookers, is the last RIAA exec. He sits there all day imagining in his head fantastic plans to sue the world because someone MUST still be pirating somewhere. But, in fact, all of the music is gone. Nobody wants it. He killed it.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday June 17 2018, @11:25PM
I hope you're right too, but I don't think this will come to pass unfortunately.
I had the misfortune to be forced to listen to a pop music radio station today, as I donated blood, and the 3 or 4 songs I had to listen to were frankly just clones of each other, from the autotuned voices to the bland verse-chorus-verse structure.
I know I'm just an old man shaking my fist at a cloud, but it it really did sound like a series of smooth, bland boring, corporate products rolled out one after the other.
McDonalds makes a lot of money because people like things they are familiar with, and pop music in the 21st century has turned into safe and familiar.
I wonder how a Led Zepplin or Sex Pistols or David Bowie would get a chance today. My guess is that they wouldn't because they don't fit the corporate sound.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 21 2018, @04:00AM
It's GONE.
That Window of making nice nice with music customers, linking music sales to concerts, providing decent online platforms where people can buy music and use it anywhere are over. Too late.
Consumers of music were screwed.
Now who pays for what they get for free.
If I can't rip a DVD I won't buy it. So I don't buy DVDs anymore.
Trust? Gone
This ship has sailed.
Good luck getting this fart back in the asshole.