![]() Similar lawsuits against Hotfile and IsoHunt ended with both sites being shut down and settlements of $80 million and $110 million respectively. It has been speculated that the lawsuit was filed as a way for the record labels to backdoor SOPA and use it further as a precedent to take other domains and websites down. The music companies involved in the suit asked for $520 million in statutory damages and a permanent injunction that prevents domain registrars and registries from working with the site. On 17 April 2015, a lawsuit was filed against the operators of the website. Mp3skull claimed to comply with the DMCA and removes infringing content reported by content owners. ![]() As of October 2016, the website is offline. As of February 2016, RIAA and other music labels led a successful court case against Mp3Skull. Īlthough Mp3skull was among Alexa's Top 500 websites in 2013, it suffered a drop in ranking due to a Google algorithm update that impacted sites considered to be promoting piracy. ![]() It was founded in 2010 and the site has been the subject of controversy for helping users to find unauthorized copies of copyrighted music. Mp3skull was a website that provided direct download links to MP3 files located on third-party sites. Over one million per day as of March 2015
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