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In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal
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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Is that a final decision, or an appeal is on the way? Also the "alliance" doesn't attack the source directly [ youtube ] but some indirect folks that just press the available oranges and give users some juice ... weird. Did that alliance assess how much good youtube does to them, by popularizing so many new songs (and remind people of older ones) that would otherwise remain in the dark forever?
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Can't plug the analog hole.
>> Danish Court
How does one take a judge or jury filled with jelly seriously?
I'm surprised it took this long. With all the clout record companies have, I'm surprised it took them this long to find a country to make this illegal in. The surprise here, isnt' that it is illegal somewhere. The surprise is it took this long TO BE illegal somewhere.
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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!
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
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Why not just use youtube-dl like everyone else?
Ezekiel 23:20
It's trivial to do this locally using Audacity. Send the output through the sound chip and save when done.
That was the music industry's campaign slogan int the 80s. They failed to kill home taping* and despite home taping continuing well into the 90s, they enjoyed their most commercially successful decades ever.
*) Home taping was the practice of recording music streams (from the radio, to music cassettes).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Taping_Is_Killing_Music
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.
Not all the dl apps work on all the clips as expected.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Just download one of the many rippers available. For Linux there is youtube-dl
And here is the code you can use:
youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3
Most ripping sites where just a shell arround youtube-dl anyway and as such limited the program to just a few options.
As you now have the source, you will be able to build your own website that does the same. With little ingenuity, you can have a bookmark in your browser and when you click it when you are on YouTube, it will start downloading to the directory of your choice.
Editing of MP3 can then be done with any MP3 editing program you desire,
You are on /. Behave like it. Now get of my lawn.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
You canb take action now. You are on /. so you have some Internet knowledge.
Build a website around https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/. Not that hard to do. Should be up and running in around an hour.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Nowhere in the summary or article does it say world wide, it says world FIRST.
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So, people are still taping FM radio, huh?
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
Ah yes progressive Europe, where memes were almost made illegal due to copyright filters.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
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?
"We mustn't be caught by surprise by our own advancing technology" -- Aldous Huxley
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
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
That makes things a bit clearer. Thanks.
These sites should be blocked, they are too high profile and obvious.
There are plenty of other solutions to download and convert locally, and they can do their business in peace.
p.s. 10 more conversions sites just popped up to take the place of Convert2MP3.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
An example, please?
Ezekiel 23:20
Yep. Exists on Windows as well:
https://chocolatey.org/package...
(Chocolatey is a godsend, btw)
Fattist.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
You can self-distribute. It's easier than ever. But access to a good advertising budget is mutually beneficial for the distributor and content creator in most cases. Is not much different than a VC investing in a startup. They're doing nothing creative, but taking the majority of the financial risk - and then get the majority of the financial reward. The startup would likely never have made money at all without help to stay afloat.