The executive of YouTube-mp3.org who was accused by the Recording Industry Association of America last year has allegedly agreed to deliver his site over to the RIAA, News reports. The RIAA gets to hold the domain, possibly to keep other active converters from moving in on it … the digital version of scattering the earth.
In replacement for no further prosecution, the site will shut down. It’s still up at the time, but when I tried to turn an Imagine Dragons medley (don’t judge), I was told: “this setting is not available from your jurisdiction.”
It isn’t just the place the RIAA is setting on the ice, either. According to the contract documentation, the site’s executive is restrained from “knowingly creating, developing, offering, or operating any technology or service that provides or facilitates the practice generally known as ‘streamripping.’”
The site provides its visitors to turn YouTube videos into MP3 files, which they can then hear to where and whenever they want. The music business sees such “stream ripping” sites as a serious threat to its incomes, worse than usual pirate sites.
In an effort to do something about it, a combination of record labels, designed by the RIAA, took YouTube-MP3 to court last year.
A charge filed in a California federal court accused the site’s executive of various types of copyright infringement. In extension, the labels involved the site of surrounding YouTube’s copying protection mechanism, violating the DMCA.
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