Google is apparently cracking down on a popular site that converts the music from YouTube videos into MP3s.
YouTube-MP3 .org has received a letter from Google, YouTube's parent company, that notifies the site operators converting videos this way violates YouTube's terms of service, according to the blog TorrentFreak, which said that they have seen the letter.
YouTube blocked YouTube-MP3.org's serves from accessing the site. The top four record companies have pressured YouTube for months to do more to take down these services. YouTube has spent a lot of money to license music videos as well as enable users to incorporate music into their clips free of charge.
The way the conversions site orks is that a user types in a YouTube URL into a tab field and then the service creates an MP3 file of the music.
TorrentFreak noted that the letter was written by 'Harris Cohen', who is a YouTube associate product counsel. He wrote that if the site continues to operate, then it may result in "legal consequences."
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