Google Threatens To Sue Huge YouTube MP3 Conversion Site
Found on TorrentFreak on Wednesday, 20 June 2012
According to a letter seen by TorrentFreak, Google are threatening action against one of the web’s largest YouTube conversion sites. The site, which according to Google’s own stats is pulling in 1.3 million visitors every day, extracts MP3 audio from YouTube videos and makes it available for users to download.
Cohen underlines the fact that to “separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API” is forbidden, as is externally storing copies of YouTube content.
So Youtube wants to stop users from saving the videos? Well, Google better shuts Youtube down then, because this is the only way to enfore this rule. For every major browser there are numerous plugins which add a download option to every video.