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Another YouTube Conversion Site Clipped

Posted by timothy on from the no-wall-just-this-thorny-hedge dept.

Hodejo1 writes "[Tuesday] morning we learned that Google fired the first volley against YouTube conversion sites by blocking YouTube-MP3.org's servers from accessing its service and sending a letter threatening legal action. It looks like the fast growing Clip.dj also got the letter based on the note posted on the site: 'We're sorry to announce this, but Clip.dj has shut its service down for good.'"

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  1. But YOU are not their target (yet) by QuasiSteve · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, but you are not their target.

    You can indeed already hear the sound, see the video, and record it. Whether you do that by pointing a candybar phone at your screen and recording a dozen mjpeg videos or via a client-side plugin that converts things on-the-fly, doesn't matter.

    What they're targeting are 3rd party sites that download the content, convert it, and serve up the converted result (most likely caching things in the interim to save CPU cycles).
    You may still be the destination of that download, but you are no longer the sole entity (besides YouTube itself) involved.

    Now, if they were to go after the client-side solutions (and I don't mean the add-ons that simply submit to a 3rd party server and serve up the result), that'd be different. Maybe they will after getting rid of the 3rd party servers.