In World First, Danish Court Rules Stream-Ripping Site Illegal 88
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 (Score:5, Funny)
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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Fattist.
Weird (Score:2)
Re:Weird (Score:4, Informative)
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.
Stream ripping = home taping (Score:1)
Can't plug the analog hole.
Filled with Jelly = Not Serious (Score:2)
How does one take a judge or jury filled with jelly seriously?
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Oh you...
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Yep. Exists on Windows as well:
https://chocolatey.org/package... [chocolatey.org]
(Chocolatey is a godsend, btw)
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From the page you linked:
This package was approved as a trusted package on 7/10/2018.
Yeah, I'm really going to trust some fuckwit site that approves things in the future.
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US date formatting is retarded.
Re:Conversion not allowed in my country since a mo (Score:4, Funny)
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
Surprised it took this long (Score:2)
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.
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Audacity (Score:4, Interesting)
It's trivial to do this locally using Audacity. Send the output through the sound chip and save when done.
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your grandfather most likely know how to use a tape recorder pretty much same thing
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I usually split off the aac from the mp4 that youtube deliberately places onto my computer.
But I suppose yours adds an extra layer to the already bloated pile of realities that factually defy the various mafiAA fictions.
Home Taping Is Killing Music (Score:1)
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.. (Score:5, 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.
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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.
What if you package it as a "cloud" program?
Is MS on the hook if I paste a Disney character into a Word doc, using their cloud version of Office?
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MS need not fear accusations of infringement, but for the same reason that The Biggest Pirate Ever doesn't worry about it.
Hint: TBPE is the world's most popular video site
Seriously though, someone answer the question. I'm willing to accept that only a local, client-side processor is valid, but then MS is the one who performed the operation above.
Texas Board of Professional Engineers?
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Google Translate does the same thing.
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Ah yes progressive Europe, where memes were almost made illegal due to copyright filters.
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Nowhere in the summary or article does it say world wide, it says world FIRST.
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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.
Things never change (Score:2)
So, people are still taping FM radio, huh?
Having the cake and eating it too (Score:4, 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 [wikipedia.org].
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 (Score:4, Informative)
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.
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Then what is it for? And please don't give me the "to compensate for losses due to copies", how can you possibly justify blanket punishment of everyone for a crime a handful of people commit? Do you get to pay a "robbery fee" on guns now? Is there a "getaway car tax" on new vehicles? Or how about all men paying a "rapist victim compensation" for having the relevant equipment?
GOOD - get rid of these sites (Score:2)
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.
Do as I do. (Score:1)
I haven't bought a single piece of music since 1999, when the music industry shut down Napster.
Never will again.
Don't collect music, either. Don't miss it.
Please join me in refusnik.
Not a single centavo for the industry that steals every penny off of artists.