16 September 2020CopyrightSarah Morgan

Stream-ripping responsible for ‘mammoth’ proportion of music piracy: study

The usage of stream-ripping services—which allow users to illegally create permanent offline copies of streams from platforms—has dramatically increased between 2016 and 2019 in the UK, with YouTube being the most exploited legitimate service, according to a new study.

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