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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. Let's see.. by Dwedit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Let's see... We have a web service that grabs copyrighted material from a third-party website, then distributes a mechanically-derived work of that copyrighted material... Sounds about right.

    Needs to be client-side to avoid the step of redistribution.

  2. Having the cake and eating it too by Misagon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Meanwhile, Denmark has its "båndkopi" (tape copy) fee on practically all storage media -- whether it is being used for music or not -- to compensate for copying.
    The collected money is distributed to a select number of rights holders through some scheme by the industry organisation Copydan.

    The "båndkopi" fee was created once upon a time because the music industry complained that people could copy music to tapes from records and the radio ...
    And now that Youtube and other streaming services are basically serving the same function that radio did, things are different?

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    "We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley