Major Labels Ask UK High Court to Block Stream-Ripping Sites * TorrentFreak
> Major labels including Sony and Warner have appeared in the High Court in London, requesting that the country's leading ISPs block access to several stream-ripping sites. Among the targets are flvto.biz and 2conv.com, a pair of sites currently embroiled in legal action initiated by record companies in the United States. After years of battling peer-to-peer sharing carried out on networks including BitTorrent, the major record labels now view stream-ripping as the major piracy threat. Broadly speaking, stream-ripping is carried out in two ways – either by using tools such as youtube-dl (...
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