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In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal

Posted by msmash on from the setting-precedence dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Convert2MP3 is a site that allows users to download audio from platforms including YouTube. Following legal action carried out by Rights Alliance on behalf of music industry group IFPI, Convert2MP3 has been declared unlawful by a Danish court which has now ordered ISPs to block it. It's the first time worldwide that a so-called stream-ripping site has been declared illegal.

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 3, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Re:That's a good thing by Oswald+McWeany · · Score: 4, Funny

    The other day I was in San Jose as a tourist and took a bus. A rather large fellow sitting next to me asked me if he could "rip a stream" and before I knew it, he lifted a leg and I had to change buses immediately.

    Sorry, I wondered why you left!

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    "That's the way to do it" - Punch
  3. Re:Conversion not allowed in my country since a mo by BlueStrat · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah, but the SGAE in Spain does not really want to forbid things. They want to be able to extort money from everybody.

    Nobody expects the Spanish Requisition!

    Strat

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    Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.