Google blocks MP3 rippers from YouTube

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Websites that allow MP3 files to be recorded from YouTube are feeling the wrath of the Chocolate Factory, and popular ripping site YouTube-mp3 is calling foul.

"Google is accusing us to threaten your safety and wanted us to close this service. If we wouldn't comply they threatened to sue us," said no-last-name Philip on YouTube.mp3's blog. "Unfortunately Google has just blocked all of our servers from accessing YouTube so we had to disable all conversion functionality."

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/19/google_youtube_youtubemp3/

 

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Google Cracks Down on YouTube-to-MP3-Ripping Sites

The free ride may ending for people who rip YouTube music videos to MP3s through youtube-mp3.org and similar sites. YouTube's lawyers have sent cease-and-desist letters to the sites, threatening “legal consequences” to those that don't comply, TorrentFreak reports. Youtube-mp3.org also claims that its servers have been blocked by YouTube, preventing any more conversions. (At the time of this writing, however, the site's MP3 extraction tool worked for me.)

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2578...on_youtubetomp3ripping_sites.html#tk.rss_news