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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Sept 6, 2017 22:43:01 GMT -5
RIAA shuts down popular YouTube to MP3 conversion site © Provided by The Next Web One of the most popular free sites for converting YouTube videos into MP3s might soon be shutting down, thanks to the music industry. The operator of YouTube-mp3.org — who was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America last year — has apparently agreed to hand his site over to the RIAA, TorrentFreak reports. The RIAA gets to keep the domain, apparently to keep other enterprising converters from moving in on it … the digital version of salting the earth. In return for no further prosecution, the site will shut down. It’s still up at the moment, but when I tried to convert an Imagine Dragons medley (don’t judge), I was told “this service is not available from your jurisdiction.” It isn’t just the site the RIAA is putting on ice, either. According to the settlement documentation, the site’s operator is restrained from “knowingly designing, developing, offering, or operating any technology or service that allows or facilitates the practice commonly known as ‘streamripping.'” The judgment has yet to be signed by the court. Source
Most if not all of those songs uploaded as videos for the purposes of being used in YouTube Red have some sort of blocking or encryption which prevents them from being processed through such conversion websites.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2017 22:52:50 GMT -5
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Post by Au$tin on Sept 7, 2017 0:47:30 GMT -5
Eh. Just play the video and record the audio using Audacity. Sure, it takes a tad bit longer, but that's not really something they can ever stop.
And that's if you really feel the need to pirate music in the first place. With YouTube, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, iTunes, Amazon MP3, etc, there's so many free and cheap options nowadays that piracy isn't even worth it.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 5:10:02 GMT -5
d-i-n-o-s-a, u-r a dinosaur
I see the fossils at RIAA are still trying to scare everybody with one more attempt at a roar.
I still occasionally rip indie stuff, covers, and remixes that aren't going to be found on any streaming site - basically things we all know the RIAA doesn't care in the least about protecting. But I can't even recall the last time I streamripped a 'regular' major label song from YT and like Disco pointed out a lot of those vids are encrypted to block downloads anyway. It's also dumb because there are so many other sites, third-party browser apps, and aforementioned Audacity. RIAA would never be able to kill all of that, just like they were never able to kill off all the torrenting sites.
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Post by Caviar on Sept 7, 2017 7:51:11 GMT -5
I used it to download audio versions of live performances. But with artists uploading performances on their Vevo I don't use it as much.
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Post by Choco on Sept 7, 2017 8:01:19 GMT -5
Congrats, you've killed one of the 12412 sites that do this.
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Post by Joe1240 on Sept 10, 2017 2:17:28 GMT -5
YouTube Quality is terrible. There are so many ways to now days to listen to HQ Quality music ITunes,Google Play etc. There is no reason to rip from YouTube anymore.
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Post by Disco🌶️📖 on Sept 11, 2017 0:42:36 GMT -5
A lot of DJs (even big name ones) get the music they play at their gigs and shows this way. :sip2:
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 21:19:36 GMT -5
A lot of DJs (even big name ones) get the music they play at their gigs and shows this way. :sip2: girl. Who the f**k is still ripping from youtube in 2017 anyway? The quality is terrible. This is an attack on middle America and nothing else, lol.
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Post by Mazo on Sept 11, 2017 21:37:10 GMT -5
I didn't know people had to go through all that these days in order to listen to music. I guess I'm lucky to be able to afford streaming services otherwise I'd just google mp3 or flac files instead of converting from some crappy audio. lol. Things like this just makes me realize how so many people don't know how the internet works after all these years.
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Post by naughty on Sept 11, 2017 22:08:34 GMT -5
A lot of DJs (even big name ones) get the music they play at their gigs and shows this way. :sip2: girl. Who the f**k is still ripping from youtube in 2017 anyway? The quality is terrible. This is an attack on middle America and nothing else, lol. Actually is not that terribly bad anymore. Since 2016 or so they're using a new audio codec for most of the videos called OPUS at 160kbps, which essentially sounds like 320kbps MP3 since it uses newer and better compression algorithm. They still normalize audio tho which is a huge issue.
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Post by KeepDeanWeird on Sept 11, 2017 23:32:04 GMT -5
I didn't know people had to go through all that these days in order to listen to music. I guess I'm lucky to be able to afford streaming services otherwise I'd just google mp3 or flac files instead of converting from some crappy audio. lol. Things like this just makes me realize how so many people don't know how the internet works after all these years. There are some single mixes, demos and live that have been never been made available for purchase either CD, streaming or iTunes - they were either vinyl or promo only. Those would be the only ones worth ripping. I'd bet a lot of commercially available music is ripped from outside US. But it took the RIAA until 2016 to file suit - those services have been around for years.
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Post by Joe1240 on Sept 12, 2017 1:56:59 GMT -5
girl. Who the f**k is still ripping from youtube in 2017 anyway? The quality is terrible. This is an attack on middle America and nothing else, lol. Actually is not that terribly bad anymore. Since 2016 or so they're using a new audio codec for most of the videos called OPUS at 160kbps, which essentially sounds like 320kbps MP3 since it uses newer and better compression algorithm. They still normalize audio tho which is a huge issue. It is still lower in Sound Quality from ITunes although. User Generated Videos are 128kbps AAC.For example 160kbps OPUS equals 128kbps in Size. There is a noticeable difference between the two if you listen together.
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