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YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google

Posted by timothy on from the anything-that-can-be-played-can-be-copied dept.

judgecorp writes "21-year old computer science student Philip Matesanz is ignoring a 'cease and desist' order from Google over his site YouTube-mp3.org, which rips audio tracks from videos hosted on YouTube. Instead, he has launched a public campaign against Google, arguing that German law allows what he is doing. Matesanz has an online petition."

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  1. Re:Service? We don' need no steenking service by _KiTA_ · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is sofa king lame.

    You don't need a service to extract the audio.from a YouTube stream

    While I have no objection to anyone doing this themselves for the convenience etc, I DO object to someone trying to extract $$$ from something that is not his .

    You mean like Google making advertisement money off of songs being uploaded to Youtube as "movies" that are single static images, usually with the intent for Youtube MP3 Ripper sites to rip said songs to MP3 format?

    I agree, totally unethical behavior and I object wholeheartedly.

  2. Rights by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have the right to record a song off the radio.. I have the right to record a tv show off of TV...
    Why do I not have the right to record a show, or song off youtube?