Google trying to shut down Youtube to mp3 sites

[xd21]

This We need your help!

To our users,

A few days ago we have received a cease and desist letter from Harris Cohen who is one of YouTube lawyers. Google is accusing us to threaten your safety and wanted us to close this service. If we wouldn't comply they threatened to sue us. Unfortunately Google has just blocked all of our servers from accessing YouTube so we had to disable all conversion functionality.

We refused to close this service and asked if would be possible to speak to an YouTube representative for finding a solution that would be in the interest of all our users. Since there are tens of millions of real people using this service we thought Google would be willing to have a quick chat. But the opposite was the case: There was no interest whatsoever for a simple call; they don't care about all these people that want to use such a service. We would estimate that there are roughly 200 million people across the world that make use of services like ours and Google doesn't just ignore all those people they are about to criminalize them. With the way they are interpreting and created their TOS everyone of those 200 million users is threatened to be sued by Google.

We never put any of our users at risk and have taken measures to protect them from all sorts of threats. Those measures did cost us a lot of money but we didn't care about that because we have never been profit-oriented but user-oriented. To name a few:

More than 65% of all page-impressions never had a single advertisement on it. We could have easily filled those page-impressions with ads: bad ads. We haven't done it because we don't believe that running gambling, pornographic or fraudulent ads is acceptable. Those ads would have been payed pretty well but we choose our users over that money.
We never ran pop-ups. Another decision that lowered the profit drastically.
Our own infrastructure never stored any logs on disk to protect you from exactly what is happening right now.
We are asking us what has happened to Google. It wasn't long ago they lived by their "don't be evil" philosophy and did what the users wanted. Nowadays they are ignoring millions of users but refer to their questionable good intentions if they are ignoring the "TOS" of others to increase their profitability. To give a few examples:

Google News
A great service but there was a huge outcry in Germany. Most large publishers didn't want Google to scrape content off their sites and profit from that. What has Google done? They have referred to their intentions to provide a good service for its users and ignored the publishers. This whole topic got so popular that even the German Government is about to intervene and plans to stop Google by passing a new law.

Google Books
Another great service but there are also publishers and authors that don't want their books to be scanned. Does Google care about this? Of course they don't.

Our service on the other hand is requested and used by millions of people. Compared to Google News our Government has publicly recommended its citizens to make use of so called YouTube recorders/converters. The rise of such software couldn't even have been unexpected for Google since it has happened with other technologies in the past as well. The fact that Google is creating such recording software also is particularly exciting:

After the radio has been invented people could make use of casette recorders to make a copy of the program.
After the tv has been invented you could use a video recorder. Nowadays you can use a more modern product like Google TV..

http://www.youtube-mp3.org/:snoop:

 

[head shots101]

Damn I hope they don't come at other sites..I use sites like this to get my samples

 

[AsAboveSoBelow]

This, is sad news brehs.

 

[Phillyrider807]

O they tripping! Bout to go on a youtube download spree when i get home. Keepvid is where it's at.

 

[xd21]

Damn I hope they don't come at other sites..I use sites like this to get my samples

Apparently on the news pages, they're trying to crack down on all of them.

So fukk em

 

[Digga38]

isnt there a firefox add on anyway?

 

[beenz]

This We need your help!



http://www.youtube-mp3.org/:snoop:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Still Benefited]

nooooooooooooo....bk and bkzoosoon we might need sumthin on here that converts youtube videos to mp3...make the coli a one stop shop.


That's one of my favorite websites,so easy to get old songs u can't find

 

[YBE]

isnt there a firefox add on anyway?

yea and its not like you can't just record the audio with Audio Wizard

 

[MR. SNIFLES]

THEY STILL CAN'T STOP DOWNLOADED VERSIONS. ALL THEY ARE DOING IS RIPPING THE AUDIO FROM THE VIDEOS IIRC.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

nooooooooooooo....bk and bkzoosoon we might need sumthin on here that converts youtube videos to mp3...make the coli a one stop shop.


That's one of my favorite websites,so easy to get old songs u can't find

offliberty.com

Also, they aren't going at the sites right now, but rather trying to make it so they don't pop up when you search for them on google.

Even if I'm wrong about that...there will ALWAYS be a way to rip audio and video off of youtube/dailymotion/ustream/vimeo/etc. Youtube is doing what the music business tried to do and still tries to do.

Attn Youtube/RIAA/MPAA/etc: People will get your shyt for free. Napster changed the game. People will be able to get any god damn thing they want from now on. Nothing you can do about it!

 

[TheDarceKnight]

isnt there a firefox add on anyway?

There's a Firefox add-on called DownloadEverything.

 

[Based Lord Zedd]

Attn Youtube/RIAA/MPAA/etc: People will get your shyt for free. Napster changed the game. People will be able to get any god damn thing they want from now on. Nothing you can do about it!

Exactly. And instead of wasting time and money trying to stop it they need to upgrade their business model and figure out a way to profit off of it.

 

[BAMBINO]

Jdownloader has an option to download the mp3 off a youtube video.

 

[JoelB]

Jdownloader has an option to download the mp3 off a youtube video.

Yup

so does firefox