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Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 19, 2012 @03:54AM from the see-previous-article-about-streaming dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Google is apparently cracking down on a popular site that converts the music from YouTube videos into MP3s. YouTube-MP3.org has received a letter from Google, YouTube's parent company, notifying the site operators that converting videos this way violates YouTube's terms of service, according to the blog TorrentFreak, which said it has seen the letter. In addition, YouTube apparently has blocked YouTube-MP3.org's servers from accessing the site."

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Re:How stupid, and useless by houstonbofh · 2012-06-19 04:02 · Score: 5, Funny

This seems to be an easier tool for the non-technical to use, and therefore would open it up to a wider audience. Costing record companies billions of dollars and funding terrorism, of course.