Bot Is Leaveing Now

Google-owned YouTube is starting to crack downwards on Discord music bots. The search giant has sent a end and desist to the owners of the pop Groovy Bot, which lets Discord users play music from YouTube videos and is installed on more than 16 1000000 Discord servers. Google wants the service gone inside vii days, and Cracking is complying by shutting down its bot on August 30th.

Google confirmed to The Verge that it took action in this example: "We notified Great nigh violations of our Terms of Service, including modifying the service and using it for commercial purposes," a YouTube spokesperson writes, adding that its APIs are for developers who comply with its terms of service.

"Groovy has been a huge part of my life over the past 5 years. It started because my friend's bot sucked and I thought I could make a better one," says Nik Ammerlaan, Groovy Bot owner, in a bulletin announcing the closure. The Bang-up Bot sources music from YouTube and allows Discord users to play and share it in servers where the bot is installed.

Peachy Bot allows for a social listening party on Discord, largely using the sound from YouTube videos. It has become hugely popular over the past v years, with some estimates suggesting it has more than 250 million users. It has at present caught the attention of Google and YouTube.

The Keen Bot service will end later on this calendar month.

"I'm not sure why they decided to send it [a end and desist] now," says Ammerlaan in an interview with The Verge. "They probably just didn't know nigh information technology, to be honest." Ammerlaan admits Groovy Bot has been a "huge weight" on his shoulders over the past 5 years, and that Google'due south actions were ever something he saw coming. "It was just a matter of seeing when it would happen," says Ammerlaan.

While Dandy Bot supports Spotify, YouTube, Soundcloud, and other services, "something like 98 percent of the tracks played on Smashing were from YouTube," admits Ammerlaan. Google's move to forcefulness Slap-up Bot offline could mean we'll now meet similar action against other Discord bot owners.

Rythm, the most pop Discord music bot, is yet standing strong... for at present. "We don't currently programme to shut down," a Rythm bot co-owner, Jet, wrote in a message to its customs of users. Rythm is installed on nearly xx million Discord servers and says information technology has more than than 560 meg users equally a result.

We tried to accomplish out to one of the owners of Rythm, but after initially responding the owner didn't answer to requests about whether Google had issued a cease and desist. If Google isn't happy with Slap-up Bot, then it'due south hard to imagine it's going to let Rythm continue, too.

Groovy Bot shutting downwards comes just weeks after several YouTube video downloading sites have disappeared randomly. The removal of this bot also leaves a giant hole in Discord'southward bot offerings. "We take the rights of others seriously and require developers who create bots for Discord to practise the same," says a Discord spokesperson in a statement to The Verge. "If a bot running on Discord violates someone else's rights, that 3rd party or Discord may take action."

Update, 7:32 PM ET: Added Google's confirmation and statement that information technology told Groovy that it violates YouTube'southward terms of service.

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Source: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/24/22640024/youtube-discord-groovy-music-bot-closure

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