Audio Rippers & Intellectual Property

Ripping the audio from Youtube videos has been around for awhile. After testing one the other day it got me thinking: What is the difference between downloading a song that has a copyright from a bittorrent site and using a service to rip the same audio from a Youtube video? The answer is obvious, there is no difference. Although I do not think you should use the service I'm about to talk about to download songs with a copyright, that doesn't mean you cannot use the service to download songs which are in the public domain.

Dirpy is an impressive web based Youtube ripper. Not only can you use the service to download a video from Youtube, you can also rip the audio. What sets this service apart from similar sites is the ability to set Start/Stop times and add custom ID3 tags. ID3 tags include the title, artist, album, and track number.