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Russian YouTube-Ripping Site Wins In US Court (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous reader quotes TorrentFreak:
YouTube rippers are seen as the largest piracy threat to the music industry, and record labels are doing their best to shut them down. In 2017, YouTube-MP3, the world's largest ripping site at the time, shut down after being sued, and several other folded in response to increased legal uncertainty. Not all stream-ripping sites throw in the towel without a fight though. FLVTO.biz and 2conv.com, owned by Russian developer Tofig Kurbanov, remained online despite being sued by several record labels last August....
According to the defense, the court has no jurisdiction over the matter. Only a small fraction of the visitors come from the US, and the site is managed entirely from Russia, it argued.... Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton ruled on the matter. In a 14-page opinion, he clearly sides with the operator of the YouTube rippers. Kurbanov doesn't have to stand trial in the U.S. so the case was dismissed.
Billboard notes that the site was the 322nd most-visited web site in the world last year (for the 12 months ending in September, according to court documents) -- and that nearly 10 percent of the site's traffic -- 26.3 million visitors -- came from the U.S, including 500,000 from Virginia.
According to the defense, the court has no jurisdiction over the matter. Only a small fraction of the visitors come from the US, and the site is managed entirely from Russia, it argued.... Tuesday, U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton ruled on the matter. In a 14-page opinion, he clearly sides with the operator of the YouTube rippers. Kurbanov doesn't have to stand trial in the U.S. so the case was dismissed.
Billboard notes that the site was the 322nd most-visited web site in the world last year (for the 12 months ending in September, according to court documents) -- and that nearly 10 percent of the site's traffic -- 26.3 million visitors -- came from the U.S, including 500,000 from Virginia.
... links to the rippers.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Basically every song in existence. Tons of TV shows and even movies. All for free.
Shutdown the sites? No problem, youtube-dl is infinitely better anyway.
The real problem is that Google shouldn't be hosting this content and making money off of it. If I tried to make my own YouTube, I'd be sued into oblivion. So whatever...as long as Google gets to get away with theft, I will take what they're giving out for free. Thanks!
Slashdot sells an anti-russian story with fake news, as always. This site did not 'win' in a US court- to do so the court has to rule that it has a right to try the case, and hence find the 'defendent' 'innocent'.
Instead the court recognised, correctly, that what Russians do in Russia is a matter for Russian authorities. And it did so with direct interference from the US Deep State, aware that to rule otherwise allows other Empire Powers (China and Russia) to prosecute US citizens for things they do in the USA- and you can see why this concept remains an eternal no-no.
Otherwise the Deep State controllers of Facebook, Google, Twitter etc could be sought and detained for trial in Russia, since their activities in the USA, when held to Russian legal standards, are clearly 'illegal'.
America is not just the planet's supreme mass murdering war-monger, it is also the planet's supreme business machine, and as such can be imaginged as existing at the bottom of a very deep hole. If America goes too far, the impact on US business interests can be devastating as America can only lose in tit-for-tat trade warfare such as is represented by the targeting of foreign business people for the business they do in their own territories.
The usual statist sh-ts on this site will dribble on about how Youtube is a US biz, and hence interactions with Youtube always fall under US rule- but this is utter garbage. Does Youtube block access from Russia? Of course not. So Youtube does biz in Russia that, by international treaty, must respect Russian laws. And Russians accessing Youtube in Russia via normal means are limited ONLY by the dictats of Russian laws.
Of course if the neo-liberal scum who voted for the demonic Clinton (on her war-mongering ticket that promised to immediately confront Russia in Syria to protect Obama's wahhabi hordes) want to go to war with Russia using any means, then one day soon every American will learn exactly how large the advantage in nuclear waepon tech Russia has. I don't see the upside in this however, since such a war will utterly wipe the USA from Human History.
The democrats were the party of Human slavery in the USA, and there is no moment in the history of this party when it reformed and repudiated its own history. Rather like having known convicted pedos running a nursery claiming they are 'different' now. It will be the DEMOCRATS on this site screaming that Tofig Kurbanov shoulod have been convicted in a US court, just as it was DEMOCRAT owners of tech companies that took him to court in the USA in the first place.
Neo-liberals = neocons = blairites = fabians = the primary demonic force on the Earth pushing for endless wars and inter-group conflict. This story on slashdot is merely part of this continuum.