Tuesday, July 17, 2012

YouTube-MP3.org will Probably be Sued by Google

Back to about a month ago, popular search engine Google threatened YouTube-MP3 conversion website-You Tube-MP3.org for its API service. This website helps users with conversion service from YouTube video to MP3 audio simply by the video url without any account or so. And they can download the converted audio file. Google declared that it applied YouTube API to achieve such results. According to the statistics from Google DoubleClick, there are about 1.3 million visitors per day viewing this website.

Google sent a letter to YouTube-MP3 owner on June 8th and asked him to stop the service, otherwise he will be sued. From the letter, Google pointed out that You Tube-MP3 service is obviously against the YouTube API terms of service. YouTube consultant of related products said, the continuing of such service would possibly lead to legal action and there is 7 days' cutline. Meanwhile, Google had already forbidden You Tube-MP3 for visiting YouTube.

Philip was quick to react on the letter.
"We would estimate that there are roughly 200 million people across the world that make use of services like ours and Google doesn't just ignore all those people, they are about to criminalize them," Philip said in a statement on Youtube-MP3.org.

"With the way they are interpreting and creating their ToS (Terms of Service) every one of those 200 million users is threatened to be sued by Google," the statement said.

Below is the letter we've mentioned above.
letter
Now if you search the website You Tube-MP3.org, you’ll notice the difference of it.

youtube mp3

And later: http://www.youtube-mp3.org/help-us
youtube mp3

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