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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Re:That's a good thing

[Oswald McWeany]

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!

Re:Conversion not allowed in my country since a mo

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Why not just use youtube-dl like everyone else?

Audacity

[WinstonWolfIT]

It's trivial to do this locally using Audacity. Send the output through the sound chip and save when done.

Let's see..

[Dwedit]

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.

Re:Conversion not allowed in my country since a mo

[houghi]

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.

Re:Weird

[elgaard]

This is from the Frederiksberg court.
It is not final. But most likely the alliance won because the people behind Convert2mp3 did not bother to show up in a Danish court. And they probable also will not appeal. The transcripts from the court is not made public yet as far is I know.

For those that disagree

[houghi]

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.

Having the cake and eating it too

[Misagon]

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?

Re:Having the cake and eating it too

[Opportunist]

We got the same. In any other context something like this would be illegal. You're paying a fee on every medium, but at the same time copying anything that says that it has a copy protection (needn't even have one, just claiming to have one is enough) means you must not copy it.

Now tell me, what kind of content am I supposed to put on the medium that I just paid for to be allowed to put content on that I'm not allowed to put on.

Dear content industry: Go and die a quick and preferably painful, but I'd settle for just quick, death. Nobody needs you anymore. You're, essentially, a useless sponge on society in general and creative creators in particular. The faster you cease to exist, the better for all of us.

Re:Conversion not allowed in my country since a mo

[BlueStrat]

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