how is beemp3.com still operating ?

Discussion in 'Legal Issues' started by doridori, Aug 23, 2008.

  1. #1
    i thought all these mp3 sites were gone for good

    i discovered beemp3.com

    it lets u search mp3, and listesn to it and download it.

    of course it has the same "we dont host any files so we are legit" excuse.

    how would you justify this.
     
    doridori, Aug 23, 2008 IP
  2. MelogKnaj

    MelogKnaj Guest

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    They are still operating because no one has bothered trying to shut it down. There are thousands of sites out there like this and you can't possibly get rid of them all.
     
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  3. ravencin

    ravencin Active Member

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    2121 Alexa Ranking.

    That means HUGE traffic, so that means they have something so they can't be shut down
     
    ravencin, Oct 19, 2008 IP
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    Also depends on where their site is hosted. If it's a country that doesn't support American Copyright laws the RIAA might not be able to shut it down.
     
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    It appears that this site is owned by a Russian... using a host from the Dominican Republic... and a dedicated IP from Sweden.
     
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    RectangleMan Notable Member

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    A) they are in russia
    B) how are they different from Youtube?

    Their TOS is similar in wording to youtubes.
    http://beemp3.com/tos.html
     
    RectangleMan, Oct 19, 2008 IP
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    xainpro Greenhorn

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    Not gone Actually it becomes http://beemp3s.org
     
    xainpro, Sep 5, 2013 IP
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    I am only guessing that it might be so that it cant be confiscated by the US.

    I have heard that .com domains can be easily confiscated for copyright breaches (I believe this happened when tvlinks was taken down), so now they are using a .org, this may be harder for them to take down the domain name.
     
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    mp3 is low quality ,i know lot of this websites to download mp3 but all says that they dont host the songs, anyone knows where is hosted this music ?
     
    iori82, Sep 6, 2013 IP
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    YouTube is in the USA. This site is in Russia. They aren't as vigilant and sometimes allow sites to rip off US owners. It's a big source of dispute about how there is a lack of respect for international copyright at times. Many of these sites have a high ranking from non-us traffic.
     
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