IFPI Announces Y2mate Stream Ripping Takedown in Vietnam

IFPI shuts down 12 stream-ripping websites operating in Vietnam

It’s a busy month for the IFPI’s villain-busting teams. Fresh from the news of the latest court order tackling a streaming-fraud service in Brazil, now the global labels body has shut down 12 stream-ripping sites in Vietnam, including one of the biggest in the world: Y2mate. The IFPI reckons that the 12 sites had collectively been visited […] The post is from Music Ally.

IFPI Announces Y2mate Stream Ripping Takedown in Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Photo Credit: Tron Le Looks like stream ripping is still a problem: The IFPI has decommissioned a dozen more sites that allegedly enabled users to download videos’ audio. The IFPI confirmed the stream-ripping pulldowns, all stemming from a “targeted enforcement action in Vietnam,” in a brief release. As summed up by the organization, the 12 sites at hand shared a single operator, and that individual “agreed to shut dow…

Legal action in Vietnam takes stream-ripper Y2mate offline

The International Federation Of The Phonographic Industry has hailed developments in Vietnam and Brazil respectively targeting stream-ripping and stream manipulation. In Vietnam, legal action has resulted in the closure of popular stream-ripping site Y2mate and a number of related sites which together, the IFPI says, received more than 620 million visits in the last year. Stream-ripping - where users can grab permanent downloads of temporary str…

IFPI shuts down Y2mate.com and 11 other ‘stream-ripping’ sites in Vietnam

Most domains, including Y2mate.com, now in IFPI’s possession as part of wider anti-piracy campaign Source