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The operators of YouTube-MP3.org, a popular website for turning the audio tracks of YouTube videos into MP3s, have agreed to shut down the site and hand over the domain<\/a> to the RIAA. This predictable outcome comes after 15 of the world\u2019s largest record companies filed a complaint in a California court<\/a>. Poor little YouTube-MP3.org never had a chance.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s actually remarkable that YouTube-MP3.org even survived this long. The website\u2019s sole purpose is enabling users to download audio tracks that they don\u2019t have permission to download. This practice is commonly known as \u201cstream ripping,\u201d and record companies have said that it\u2019s bigger than piracy<\/a>. In the case of, say, the latest Taylor Swift single (which is awful by the way), YouTube-MP3.org lets you rip the song in a matter of seconds. No need to buy it on iTunes or, God forbid, at a record store. Everything is free on the internet.<\/p>\n

Until it\u2019s not. While YouTube-MP3.org is hardly the only stream ripping service on the internet, it is one of the most popular. According to Alexa traffic statistics, YouTube-MP3.org has been in the top 400 most visited websites in the world for well over a year. This might be why record companies decided to take YouTube-MP3.org to court. And just to drive this point home: YouTube-MP3.org never had a chance. Faced with the armies of lawyers that companies like Capitol Records, Sony Music, and Warner Brothers Records can employ, a simple little website like this one would be lucky to last a week.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been almost year, however, since the consortium of record companies first sued YouTube-MP3.org. In the end, the parties decided on a settlement rather than letting a judge decide the website\u2019s fate. In addition to shutting down YouTube-MP3.org and handing over its domain, a proposed final judgement submitted Friday states the owners of the site will pay the record companies an undisclosed sum and refrain from \u201cknowingly designing, developing, offering, or operating\u201d any other infringing stream ripping service.<\/p>\n

For now, YouTube-MP3.org is still up, although its closure is surely imminent. That means users will have a few more hours or even days to download free music from YouTube. And once YouTube-MP3.org goes away, they\u2019ll have to use another service until that<\/em> one gets shut down by the record companies. The RIAA can play this game of whack-a-mole forever. After all, it\u2019s been doing this since the Napster days. Why stop now?<\/p>\n

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