Several Websites such as YouTube-Mp3.org and Music-clips.net
whose main purpose is to rip the audio from YouTube videos have received
letters of violation and have been ordered to stop 7 days of receiving the
letters. YouTube’s owner Google, who strongly argues that these audio ripping
websites are illegaland are violating YouTube’s terms of service, has initiated these legal actions.
The way these sites function is relatively simple, users of
these sites enter a YouTube link of any kind, and the site rips the audio from
the clip converting the audio into an Mp3.
These two ripping sites are just 2 of the many audio ripping
sites available to Internet users, however, Google does plan on going after as
many sites who are in violation. Audio ripping sites such as YouTube-Mp3.org
receives nearly 1.3 hits a day, which is safe to say that 1.3 tracks are being
illegally downloaded resulting in financial losses for rights owners such as
authors, composers, and publishers.
YouTube-Mp3.org claims that there are approximately 200
million users of audio ripping sites, and that it would not be fair for Google
to “criminalize” these users. After all YouTube is made for sharing content.
It is truly upsetting to see that the music industry has a
long way to go when it comes to identifying what is being legally shared and
what use is being violated. As mentioned in my previous blogs, the Internet,
digital downloading and web 2.0 is an unprecedented issue that we must work
together to solve, especially through legislation.
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