Google moves to snuff sites that rip music from YouTube videos
June 19, 2012
In a move that suggests Google is coming to see itself as a content owner, the company is threatening legal action against a site that lets users strip audio from YouTube videos and play them as stand-alone clips.
According to TorrentFreak, Google is blocking YouTube-MP3.org from accessing YouTube and warning that it is forbidden to modify YouTube clips or store external copies of them. The site is reportedly very popular with young people who use it to load up their phones with songs they find on YouTube.
Google moves to snuff sites that rip music from YouTube videos Google threatens site that rips YouTube music videos into MP3s (ars technica)