770,000 Users Demand YouTube-to-MP3 Conversion [UPDATED]

[Suhel]

Philip Matesanz, a 21-year-old German student studying computer science, believes that it should be easy to convert YouTube videos into downloadable .mp3s. His website, youtube-mp3.org, allows its more than one million daily users to do exactly that.

Google, however, disagrees. Last month, it reportedly sent Matesanz a cease-and-desist, claiming that his site?s function violates YouTube?s terms of service. The site is still up, but it no longer works as advertised.

In response to Google?s threat of legal action, Matesanz did two things: he turned to two experts in Germany to examine his case (they have produced reports defending Matesanz) and he asked his users and supporters to sign an online petition defending his site.

Read more at http://mashable.com/2012/07/15/youtube-mp3/

Suhel Reviewed by Suhel on 17th Jul 2012. 770,000 Users Demand YouTube-to-MP3 Conversion [UPDATED] Philip Matesanz, a 21-year-old German student studying computer science, believes that it should be easy to convert YouTube videos into downloadable .mp3s. His website, youtube-mp3.org, allows its more than one million daily users to do exactly that. Google, however, disagrees. Last month, it reportedly sent Matesanz a cease-and-desist, claiming that his site?s function violates YouTube?s terms of service. The site is still up, but it no longer works as advertised. In response to Google?s Rating: 5

[ibby]

just like my site http://mp3viddown.com but with less users lol

[Djlatino]

Old news nig
http://www.besthostingforums.com/14-...sion-site.html

[Myth?]

They got more than one million now.

[Suhel]

Old news nig
http://www.besthostingforums.com/14-...sion-site.html

This the updated version with more info.

[Mr Happy]

It's amazing what people will do before paying 99 cent.


The irony is their name, address, postcode, email address and other details they entered when signing the petition are worth far more than 99 cent* from a marketing(spamming) point of view. Those details are usually worth $4-$5 per person** so even if only 50% of people fill in the details correctly your still making more than twice the money than if you were selling the songs.


*average cost of a song on iTunes
**based on social network data

[mm786]

lol use convertfiles.com
if his site down in future
or contact me I will create one php script for that purpose .he he