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Under the umbrella of the BPI, major and independent recording labels in the UK have announced a key victory in their fight against so-called stream-ripping sites and tools. Following a two-year process, this morning a judge at London s High Court ordered major ISPs to block access to several platforms, including two of the most popular - Flvto and 2Conv.
As reported earlier this month, a group of record labels under the umbrella of the British Recorded Music Industry Ltd (BPI) and Phonographic Performance Ltd (PPL), appeared at the High Court with a request for the country’s major ISPs to block several stream-ripping sites.
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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 (which allow users to rip content from YouTube directly to their machines) or via dedicated websites that simplify the process. Some of these sites have become extremely popular, attracting the attention of the labels on the way.