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Aussie Music Industry Wins First Ever Stream-Ripping Site Blocks

The worldwide music industry is making no secret of its disdain for so-called stream-ripping sites.

Utilizing content culled mainly from YouTube but also other streaming platforms, these services convert streams into downloads, allowing users to permanently store content – usually music – on a local machine.

Earlier this year the fight to curtail the growth of such platforms landed in Australia.…

Stream-Ripper Operator Rejects Record Labels’ Piracy ‘Hysteria’ in Court

Last year, a group of prominent record labels filed a piracy lawsuit against the Russian operator of YouTube-ripping sites FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com.

The labels hoped to shut the sites down, but this effort backfired.

In January, US District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton dismissed the casedue to a lack of jurisdiction. The Virginia Court carefully reviewed how the sites operate and found no…

Record Labels Appeal Legal Defeat Against Stream-Rippers

Over the years we have covered dozens of piracy-related lawsuits, mostly from United States courts.

In many of these cases, defendants are foreign sites or services which don’t put up much of a fight.

That’s not true for the copyright infringement lawsuit a group of major record labels, backed by the RIAA, brought against Tofig Kurbanov last year.

The Russian operator of YouTube rippers FLVTO.biz…

YouTube Ripper Wins Dismissal of Record Labels’ US Piracy Lawsuit

YouTube rippers are seen as the largest piracy threat to the music industry, and record labels are doing their best to shut them down.

In 2017, YouTube-MP3, the world’s largest ripping site at the time, shut down after being sued, and several other folded in response to increased legal uncertainty.

Not all stream-ripping sites throw in the towel without a fight though. FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com,…

YouTube Ripper Slams Record Labels Over “Absurdity” and “Amnesia”

Over the years we have covered dozens of piracy-related lawsuits, mostly from US courts. In many of these cases, defendants are foreign sites or services which don’t put up much of a fight.

That doesn’t appear to be true for the copyright infringement lawsuit a group of major record labels recently brought against Tofig Kurbanov.

Right off the bat, the Russian operator of the YouTube rippers…