stream ripping

Australia’s recording industry is taking the legal route to take down so-called “stream ripping” services. Never heard of stream ripping? You’re in the minority. It’s the process of creating a…

Global recording industry body the IFPI has been talking about it for years, artists have been beleaguered by the increasing take-up of it for even longer, and publishers have been begrudgingly…

Music's biggest record labels are joining forces to fight against two of the most notorious stream-ripping websites. Ever since YouTube went live back in 2006, music fans have been using various…

The rogue stream-ripping site YouTube-mp3.org has been taken down following legal action brought by organisations representing record companies in the U.S. and U.K. The Germany-based company which…

A popular stream-ripping Website has been taken out after a legal battle with the RIAA. YouTube-MP3.org, alleged to be run by a German company and owned by Philip Matesanz, was sued by a coalition of…

CD-Rs are old hat, MP3s are so last decade. The fastest-rising piracy plague in the U.K. is stream-ripping, a blight “overwhelmingly overshadowing all other illegal music services,” according to a…