The complaint against this site was filed in the California federal court last year by three organisations that represent the music industry- the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America), the BPI (British Recorded Music Industry), and the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) - accusing it of not only copyright infringement, but also circumventing YouTube's copying protection mechanism, and violating the DMCA. This, record labels allege, has been eating into revenue, and can be seen as worse than piracy. YouTube-MP3 is claimed to be the world's leading YouTube audio ripping site that allowed users to convert YouTube videos into audio mp3 files for free, and then listen to them offline as many times as they want. Now, YouTube-MP3 has agreed to shut down indefinitely, make an undisclosed payment, and also hand over its domain to the complainant, to end the copyright infringement lawsuit. Last year, popular Germany-based YouTube to MP3 converter website,, was sued by a coalition of record labels for infringing their rights, and generating ad revenue based on content owned by these record labels.

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