Dear NewPipe community and other beloved creatures, You might have already noticed this: Searching “NewPipe” via Google will yield plenty information about the project, but a link to the official website is missing. This is because Google submitted to a DMCA takedown notice from a French record label, “Because Music”. The notice demands removing our homepage newpipe.net from their search listings along with a set of other domains completely unrelated to our project. The DMCA takedown notice was published in the Lumen database by Google themselves. While worse things could have happened as the result of such a takedown request, Google’s unlisting of our homepage creates a variety of problems. Given the fact that Google no longer counts visits to our site, it will lose relevance. As a result, websites for fake clones of NewPipe that mimic our homepage will tend to rank higher in the results. This could ultimately cause users to fall for such scams. The team is currently discussing what to do about the situation. We are considering taking legal action. If you are a lawyer and have experience with this and would like to help us, please contact us via email (team(at)newpipe.net). Regards, Schabi
    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      If the DMCA was sent by YouTube, ok. But in this case it has been sent by a french copyright troll that has nothing to do with YouTube

    • Chozo@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, Google has been weirdly tolerant of NewPipe and other YT-scraping apps for a while. I wonder what changed.

      • DpwnShift@kbin.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        Interest rates? Reddit/Twitter/YouTube can’t just exist perpetually being unprofitable now, they have to actually have a pathway to revenue, since Venture Capitalists won’t just throw money at a hundred different projects, hoping one is successful…

        • madcaesar@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          It’s funny how every company’s goto to make more money is becoming an asshole.

          Should we fix our algorithm, filter out the Nazis, stop malicious ads, and make premium a reasonable price? 🤔 No, let’s go crack down on newpipe and adblockers instead!

      • JWBananas@kbin.social
        21·
        1 year ago

        I wonder what changed.

        There is a link at the top of this page that will give you the answer.