Geoff Taylor, BPI Chief Executive, added: "It’s time to stop illegal sites like this building huge fortunes by ripping off artists and labels. It should not be so easy to engage in this activity in the first place, and no stream ripping site should appear at the top of any search result or app chart". We are doing our part, but everyone in the music ecosystem who says they believe that artists should be compensated for their work has a role to play. They are seeking $150,000 per every alleged act of piracy and asking the court to stop web hosts and advertisers from facilitating access to the site.Ĭary Sherman, the Chairman and CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) said: "This site is raking in millions on the backs of artists, songwriters and labels.
The labels claim that "tens, or even hundreds, of millions of tracks are illegally copied and distributed by stream-ripping services each month" and say that has more than 60 million unique monthly users. With this aim in mind, the world's largest record labels, including Sony, Warner Bros, and Universal, have filed a claim against and its German operator Philip Matesanz, in a federal court in Los Angeles. However, the music labels understandably aren’t keen on this "stream ripping", and plan to put a stop to it. Some sites even let you specify the audio quality, and add tags. Just paste in the URL and hey presto it comes out as an MP3. If you like a song, it’s really easy to rip the music from the video, using one of the many free online services.
If you want to watch a music video, YouTube is the number one destination. In the eighties and nineties, MTV was the place to go to watch music videos.
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