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By Chris Cooke | Published on Tuesday 18 January 2022
The major labels have sued a German hosting company which currently hosts an official homepage for the open-source download manager youtube-dl. It’s part of the music industry’s ongoing battle with stream-ripping and the technology that powers it.
Stream-ripping, of course, has been the music industry’s top piracy gripe for a while now. That has resulted in much debate over whether or not websites that allow people to grab permanent downloads of temporary streams are liable for any sort of copyright infringement. Some test cases in Europe – including as part of web-blocking injunctions – have suggested that they probably…
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