“Stream ripping has become a major threat to the music industry,” says the new lawsuit filed by some of the world’s major record labels in an attempt to tackle what they feel is a serious problem caused by YouTube stream ripping sites.
Since the explosion of digital music in the early 2000s, songs have been shared and ripped from streams left and right. Now it seems that the major labels are finally striking back against the pirates
In a story written by Billboard, a lawsuit filed by Universal, Warner Bros and Sony shows the major labels are filing suit against music rip sites like Youtube-mp3.org. Alleged to be run by a German company and German citizen named Philip Matesanz, is accused of being the “chief offender, accounting for upwards of 40% of all unlawful stream ripping that takes place in the world.”
Google, which owns YouTube, is not a party in this lawsuit, but the record labels also claim the defendants are illicitly circumventing technology measures that YouTube has implemented to control access to and prevent copying of works.
We’ll keep you updated on how the lawsuit proceeds.
I love free music though:(