"While we do not yet know how effective these new measures are, we applaud YouTube for taking affirmative steps towards shutting down the fastest growing form of music piracy," Mitch Glazier, the head of the Recording Industry Association of America, said in a statement. The US recording industry's trade group is cheering YouTube's latest moves. Ad-supported streaming, where the streaming occurs primarily on YouTube, was only $760 million.
Last year in the US, paid subscription services brought the recording industry $4.66 billion in revenue. YouTube provides more music listening than Spotify, Apple Music and every other paid streaming service combined.īut to the music industry's longstanding irritation, YouTube generates a fraction of the revenue that those subscription services do. Though stream ripping isn't limited to YouTube, Google's service is the biggest single source of music online. It's one of several complaints that recording companies, artists and others have about the Google-owned video giant. Stream-ripping piracy - which circumvents YouTube encryption to morph music from a streamed video into a download you can listen to offline for free - has worried the music industry as it has grown. The music industry has long griped about suffering collateral damage from YouTube's massive scale and influence. "It's our desire to be good partners to our content licensors as our interests are aligned on thwarting violative downloads and downloader sites." "As part of our ongoing efforts to enforce YouTube's terms of service, we're constantly making improvements and one of the recent changes resulted in the blocking of some MP3 stream ripping sites," YouTube said in a statement. YouTube is the world's biggest online video source, with 2 billion logged-in visitors every month. YouTube declined to comment on whether it had been contacted by Nadler's office but confirmed it has elevated its blocking of stream-ripping sites, which violate its terms of service.
A second industry source said content protection organizations outside the US have been working to verify whether YouTube has been putting new measures in place to block stream ripping. Jerrold Nadler of New York, reached out to Google late last week about YouTube's actions on stream ripping because of his longstanding interest in quashing piracy, according to a person familiar with the matter. The office of the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Rep. Stream ripping swipes audio tracks off YouTube videos and spits them out as MP3 downloads. YouTube has caught the attention of a high-level congressional office interested in its copyright-protection practices, an inquiry that comes as the massive video site cracks down on stream ripping, a type of music piracy.
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