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Every day millions of people use YouTube rippers, tools that are often used to download music for free. <\/p>\nEvery day millions of people use YouTube rippers, tools that are often used to download music for free. <\/p>\n
The music industry is not happy with these services. Stream-ripping is viewed as the largest piracy problem, one that\u2019s more serious than those posed by torrent sites and direct download portals.<\/p>\n
In response to this threat, the RIAA and its members have taken legal steps<\/a> to shut down sites or have them blocked<\/a> by Internet providers. On top of that, rightsholders have also sent hundreds of thousands of takedown requests<\/a> to Google, asking the company to purge stream-rippers from its search results. <\/p>\n These DMCA notices can be pretty effective but since many of the targeted sites take countermeasures, it remains a game of cat and mouse<\/a>. <\/p>\n This month, we learned that the proverbial mice are also getting into a takedown battle of their own. Apparently, the operator of two of the best-known stream-ripping sites, MP3Juices.cc and YTMP3.cc, is seeking help from Google as well.<\/p>\n As with most popular brands on the Internet, the \u2018MP3Juices\u2019 and \u2018YTMP3\u2019 keywords are used by third parties to attract search traffic. The official site is heavily downranked because it\u2019s repeatedly targeted by rightsholders, so these \u2018copycats\u2019 often end up higher in search results than the original.<\/p>\n This is a problem for the operator, who wants to put a stop to it. And what better tool to achieve this than sending a DMCA takedown notice<\/a>?<\/p>\n The notice in question came in a few days ago and was sent by someone using the name Ryan Milne. The first request covers both \u2018MP3 Juice\u2019 and \u2018YTMP3\u2019 brands and 22 URLs that use these terms without permission.<\/p>\n \u201cAll the reported websites copied our brand name \u2018MP3 Juice\u2019 without any authorization. We request immediate removal of all the infringing URLs from Google index and help us to protect our copyrights. Thanks,\u201d it reads. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Interestingly, most of the reported sites don\u2019t use any copied logos or other content that we could see, so any copyright infringement isn\u2019t immediately obvious to us. <\/p>\n All sites do use the \u2018MP3 Juice\u2019 and \u2018YTMP3\u2019 keywords, but that would fall into the trademark infringement category. However, a search for the respective trademarks in the register didn\u2019t return any results. <\/p>\n TorrentFreak reached out to the operator of the sites to learn more about the takedown request and the motivations behind it. Thus far, we have yet to hear back. <\/p>\n Google also seems to be puzzled by the notice. After a week, most of the URLs were still in the pending queue<\/a> and the search engine eventually decided not to remove them. However, there is a similar \u201cYTMP3\u201d takedown request<\/a> sent the someone named Hunter Kipling, which did result in the removal<\/a> of nearly two dozen \u2018competing\u2019 URLs.<\/p>\n Update:<\/strong> YT1S is turning the table<\/a> on YTMP#.cc now, accusing the site of using its brand\u2026<\/p>\n From: TF<\/a>, for the latest news on copyright battles, piracy and more.<\/p>\nMP3Juices and YTMP3 Take Action<\/h2>\n
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