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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.
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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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.
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,
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