Fire Alarm Companies

Legal disputes over alleged copyright violations are nothing new, but the music industry, new ways with its most recent action. More than two dozen record companies in Japan get the owner of a site called YouTube Downloader TubeFire sue. They demand more than $ 3,000,000 in damages.

TubeFire not only allows the user to download the video files to a YouTube video, but extract the audio track as mp3. The suit, on 19 August was filed, claims that this process of copying, conversion and distribution of content is a violation. The $ 3,000,000 figure was calculated by dividing the number of downloads from TubeFire processed, then you work out what the license fee would have been reached.

This case is unique because the content of hurting or not, is already free on YouTube already. TubeFire says she has been working to prevent piracy, but that it is to close temporarily while the case proceeds. Really, that's probably all the labels want. TubeFire is by far not the only service that provides conversions YouTube. Do you think that similar services are in jeopardy as well?