YouTube Ripping Sites Under Pressure to Log User Data

guest · Jun 21, 2021

YouTube Ripping Sites Under Pressure to Log User Data
June 21, 2021
https://www.technadu.com/youtube-ripping-sites-pressure-log-user-data/285057/

Music labels are now looking to compel YouTube ripping sites to log user data and share it in court.

These sites currently have user logging deactivated and would definitely like to keep it that way.

If users hide their details behind VPN tools, these logs would have little value to copyright holders.

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In what appears to be like an acceptance of this fact, major record labels are now trying to force these sites to log user data and store it properly for potential use in case of legal action. This is the next step after blocks, takedown notices, and dragging operators of these sites in courts of law, so we’ll have to see how it plays out.

The example of this new approach comes in the form of a legal request to compel Tofig Kurbanov to preserve and produce server data when requested by law enforcement. Kurbanov is the owner and operator of “FLVTO.biz” and “2conv.com”, two widely popular YouTube ripping sites that have resisted legal action even though it is generally accepted that they facilitate large-scale copyright infringement by allowing their users to rip YouTube videos and store them locally as audio files on their computers.
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The only point of complication would remain the validity of the data that these platforms could log, even if they agreed to it. The main issue is the use of VPN tools from the users’ side, so even if the server logging function is activated, the data that ripping sites would have to share with courts would have little value.
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https://torrentfreak.com/images/ripper-logging.pdf

Plaintiffs respectfully request that the Court order Defendant Tofig Kurbanov (“Defendant”) to preserve and produce computer server data from Defendant’s websites. This is core evidence that will demonstrate the rampant infringement taking place by virtue of Defendant’s illegal stream-ripping activities that are the subject of this lawsuit.

This motion does not ask Defendant to create new data.
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