The site's domain name was changed from to mp3skull.to early in 2015, and the site has been operating via different domains ever since. RIAA has mentioned the website specifically in their blog as well as in a public forum by CEO Cary Sherman. As of February 9, 2016, RIAA had requested a total of 1,769,414 URLs on to be removed from Google's search results. According to RIAA, Mp3skull is the most highly trafficked MP3 website of its kind in the world as of 2015. In October 2015, the website was submitted to USTR as a notorious pirate site by RIAA. 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

Mp3skull reborn