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YouTube is also forcing the popular Rythm Discord music bot offline

by julietteeb on 9/12/21, 10:53 PM with 5 comments

• by ev1 on 9/12/21, 11:52 PM

  I understand why people are upset about this, but TBH, everyone knew it was coming and everyone knew it was illegal, at least where Discord is based (and presumably where the servers are), when you're violating both the ToS of multiple services simultaneously and not being appropriately licenced to do public broadcasting nor paying royalties for such.

  It's pretty shitty, but that's a reflection on the state of copyright in the states - this isn't Discord's fault, and this isn't Google or YouTube's fault, and there is not really anything they can do to make it acceptable short of people changing copyright laws. (NB: I am not a fan of the way things are, just merely making an objective statement here)

  I'm more surprised that the only thing they asked was a shutdown when these bot owners were collecting large amounts of monthly payments for nothing but delivering their own ads and pirated music.

• by anaganisk on 9/13/21, 7:05 AM

  Feels like they’re now doing this since, they are in plans to integrate with Discord. May be all these days discord had some arrangement with google to allow music bots till they can build their own integration.

• by Decker87 on 9/13/21, 2:02 AM

  I'm no fan of Google but this does seem like pretty blatant piracy.