The site has been given seven days to comply. In a letter dated June 8 sent to the site owner ‘Philip’ and shared with TorrentFreak, Associate Product Counsel at YouTube Harris Cohen makes the company’s position clear.Ĭiting the ToS for YouTube’s API, Cohen insists that offering any kind of service that allows YouTube content to be downloaded (as opposed to simply streamed) is prohibited.įurthermore, Cohen underlines the fact that to “separate, isolate, or modify the audio or video components of any YouTube audiovisual content made available through the YouTube API” is forbidden, as is externally storing copies of YouTube content.Ĭontinuing to violate these restrictions, Cohen warns, may result in “legal consequences” for YouTube-mp3. Google, however, are not impressed with the activities of YouTube-MP3. Just last month TorrentFreak spoke informally with a small youth group about their current music consumption habits and without exception they were all using some kind of YouTube conversion service and listening to that music on their cellphones. Needless to say these sites are hugely popular, particularly with the younger generation. At one end a user feeds the site with a YouTube URL and after a couple of minutes the site spits out a standalone MP3 file, perfect for ripping the audio from pop videos.
What YouTube-MP3 does is straightforward. One of the countless resources to use the YouTube API is, a huge site which according to Google’s DoubleClick service pulls in 1.3 million visitors every day.
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This API, as it’s better known, provides web developers with access to certain YouTube features, but like many free gifts it comes with certain strings attached, aka the YouTube Terms of Service (ToS). It can be enjoyed on the site itself, embedded in any webpage, or accessed via YouTube’s Application Programming Interface.
YouTube is without doubt the biggest free resource of videos and music available online today.