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RIAA: Google Refuses to Remove “Pirate App” from Android Market

The RIAA is upset because Google refuses to remove the popular “MP3 Music Download Pro” app from the Android market.

“We sent a takedown notice to Google in August for this particular app, which is clearly being used for illegal purposes, and Google responded that they were declining to remove it from the Android Market,” an RIAA spokeswoman told PCMag.com.

mp3 download“We continue to have concerns with Google’s screening and takedown procedures and hope that they will be improved.”

The RIAA and other entertainment industry groups have been pushing hard against Google to take down apps they deem to be infringing.

Although the company is generally very cooperative, the groups are not always pleased with the slow response times.

Last month Google deleted the popular Frostwire app from the Android market, but it’s unknown whether this had anything to do with complaints from groups like the RIAA.

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  • Reader

    Sounds like a search engine application to me.. Google would then have to remove all web browsers from their market place if they complied with that as it’s the same thing >_>

  • Reader

    Sounds like a search engine application to me.. Google would then have to remove all web browsers from their market place if they complied with that as it’s the same thing >_>

    • http://nannirk.net/ Marius Krinnan

      Sounds more like a download manager with built in search engine to me.

      • Trolololo

        Implying you can’t use a browser as a download manager?

    • http://www.facebook.com/bconover93 Ben Conover

      Yeah you can just google “___ zip”, and a bunch of mediafire and 4shared links pop up. lol

    • fiveseven

      they riaa likes to pretend like theyre making a difference. i hope they stay persistent in doing little things that make no progress.

      • Guest

        They are making a difference, at one time people just ignored RIAA instead of actively hating them…

  • http://www.facebook.com/bconover93 Ben Conover

    I use tTorrent. Weird that they didn’t go after that because of the name. :)

    • Anonymous

      With the dirty word of “torrent” in the name, it’s obvious that the intent is to allow users to infringe upon copyright. /sarcasm

  • gudrun

    i love tf,it tells what apps are good to download and what movies should I avoid :)

  • Almitchelljr

    “The RIAA and other entertainment industry groups have been pushing hard against Google to take down apps they deem to be infringing.”

    “THEY” deem to be infringing… “THEY” are now the law?????? or will be after our beneficial leaders in Washington get thru with the draconian copyright bill now in congress.

    • monkeyslap

      THEY have always been the law. THEY are just trying to make it official finally.

  • anonco

    I have a dream that one day, google will be bored of all this Riaa and Mpaa bullshit, and then, will just cross the border to move to … Canada…. XD

    • Guest

      They got them there too :(

  • Kim Nilsson

    It’s a shame TF didn’t take the opportunity to comment on a few of those apps having WAAAAY too open permissions! They can basically do whatever they want to your phone.

  • Anonym

    Guess which app I’m downloading tonight. Streisand Effect.

    • monkeyslap

      That’s a pretty weird name for a app.

  • O’Brien

    “We continue to have concerns with Google’s screening and takedown procedures and hope that they will be improved.”

    SUCK A FUCKING COCK

    -The rest of the world.

    • DashTheDog

      but i’m gay…surely you mean eat shit

  • Guest

    This is a bit inconsistant if they are leaving this app in the market why was transdroid removed?

    A bit of a hypocritical move Google If you nme was not in the articleI would think this was a article about Apple as that is is the kind of inconsistant decision making we Have come to expect on the iOS platform.

  • Noonespecial

    Funny thing is, I didn’t even know about it until I saw the RIAA, complaining. thanks RIAA, besure and let us know other apps you don’t like. LOL

    BTW for anyone else that wants an alternative without ads in the bar, Hectic Beats Pro does the same thing, but it was removed a while back too. You can still find it if you look if look for it. So now I have to choices. :)

  • Noonespecial

    Funny thing is, I didn’t even know about it until I saw the RIAA, complaining. thanks RIAA, besure and let us know other apps you don’t like. LOL

    BTW for anyone else that wants an alternative without ads in the bar, Hectic Beats Pro does the same thing, but it was removed a while back too. You can still find it if you look if look for it. So now I have to choices. :)

  • Kr0nZ

    I can see why they want that app removed

    Its absolutely fantastic, thanx riaa for informing this great community of this awesome find. We all know how hard it can be to find such useful APPs like this one, atleast we have someone like you that hunts these down for us too use.

    Thanx again RIAA

  • Anonymous

    Update from FrostWire Team: We have now the possibility to republish our app, we noticed this week, now we see a “Publish” button, which we are waiting to use once we open source our Android BitTorrent client.

    Cheers

  • Anonymous

    Update from FrostWire Team: We have now the possibility to republish our app, we noticed this week, now we see a “Publish” button, which we are waiting to use once we open source our Android BitTorrent client.

    Cheers

  • http://prowest.ws PROWEST

    These idiots don’t seem to get it. MP3 downloading apps are also used to download legit mp3 files from non-mainstream artists who use it as their distribution system. If their only argument against the app is that people can use it to download infringing content then they might as well request computers stop being manufactured since they too can be and are used for illegal purposes.

    • MarkF

      The “idiots” most certainly do get it. Every independent music artist in the world is in direct competition with the RIAA and is undermining years of the hard work they’ve put in to all-but-monopolize the entire music industry. This battle isn’t about piracy, it’s about personal freedom and doing everything we can to make sure that our kids don’t grow up in a world in which every single thing they see, hear, read, listen to and watch is controlled by faceless multinational corporate conglomerates whose intentions are anything but pure.

    • Mwhahahaha

      “they might as well request computers stop being manufactured since they too can be and are used for illegal purposes.”

      Yes, they’re doing it, it’s called cloud computing. Soon you’ll not have anything other than a screen, keyboard and modem in your home. Then you’ll have your internet and program choice dictated to you by MS, Apple and Google. That’s what they’re aiming at long term, if they’re not then they’re fools.

  • WS Galaxy

    Shh, don’t give them ideas. They might just…oh, wait:

    http://www.deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2003_09_13_5807.php

    I guess you’re about 9 years too late to ridicule them about it, but they haven’t stopped trying, it seems. ;)

    • monkeyslap

      That article is a satire/parody/joke. None of it is true. But it was decent read. Thank god it wasn’t real though.

  • Anonymous

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    • monkeyslap

      “The TinyURL (3j5ovpk) you visited was used by its creator in violation of our terms of use. TinyURL has a strict no abuse policy and we apologize for the intrusion this user has caused you. Such violations of our terms of use include:

      Spam – Unsolicited Bulk E-mail
      Fraud or Money Making scams
      Malware
      or any other use that is illegal.”

      HAHA YA FUCKING SPAMMER! YOU GOT BUUUUUURNED!

  • Zan

    duly downloaded and rated 5 stars, thanks for the tipoff RIAA!

  • Anonymous

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    • monkeyslap

      SPAM! That god damn madshopper shit again!

  • monkeyslap

    Is Google finally growing a pair and starting to tell RIAA to screw off? I sure hope so.

  • Anonymous

    nirl.eu/7

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  • Jay Mark

    Google music is now online… I wonder if GOOGLE has change their position….

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