Popular audio ripping site Convert2MP3 shuts down after lawsuit
Global recording industry organization IFPI has confirmed in a statement that popular audio ripping site Convert2MP3 is shutting down as part of a settlement from a 2017 lawsuit. Convert2MP3 allows people to download audio files from YouTube links and other sources, and according to the IFPI, had 684 million visits from around the world over the past year.
Convert2MP3, one of the world’s most-used stream ripping sites, has shut down globally following action coordinated by IFPI and BVMI. Read the full statement https://t.co/bBLhhdRwyl
— IFPI (@IFPI_org) June 21, 2019
The IFPI has marked piracy as a threat to the music industry for a number of years. Its 2018 Music Consumer Insight Report said that 38 percent of people globally…
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