Following the news two weeks ago that YouTube was owned by Google Groovy bot forced offline, was widely regarded as a matter of time before the platform reached the other popular Discord bots who use it to get music. Now it seems that RhythmicThe number appears: as reported by YouTube served the bot a letter of cessation and abandonment, which forced her to go offline within seven days.
Discord music robots, which have successfully avoided legal scrutiny for years, have long provided users of the platform with a means to encourage the community by creating shared playlists. Rythm is the most widely used Discord music bot in a long time, with about 560 million Discord users, approximately 30 million of whom are active each month. Prior to the closure, Rythm users had been able to feed the bot YouTube links, which would then fill a shared playlist for everyone on a given voice channel. The company wrote in a post on its website, which is scheduled to comply with the legal notice upon completion of the service on September 15th.
“Even though our current service is closing, we are not going anywhere,” Rythm wrote in the newsletter. “We have spent the last year working on something new in the music space that will revolutionize the way we all listen to music. We can’t share much yet, but keep Rythm on your servers and subscribe to our newsletter to receive updates as we post them over the coming months. “
Those who owned the bot, who had obtained music from YouTube and played music in order to provide background listening to Discord users, would have been for months preparing for a sudden forced closure, especially after finding that the YouTube and RIAA legal teams —Suddenly, there had been a lot of interest in third-party companies violating the platform’s terms of service.
“One way or another we knew this was going to happen,” said Yoav, the creator of the Rythm robot The Verge in a statement through Discord. “That’s why a year ago we started working on something new. Groovy gets one [legal notice] it meant it would happen sooner rather than later. “
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In addition to taking legal action against the popular bot Groovy, YouTube had forced the closure of several popular video download sites over the past year, including YouTube-DL. The sharp contentious streak is a strong indication that the platform and the RIAA are increasingly interested in cracking down on third-party sites that infringe on YouTube’s copyrighted content.
“I think now that we’ve received the letter, all the music robots will get them in the next few weeks as well, and I firmly believe they’ll all close,” Yoav told The Verge. “As a very early user of Discord, it’s hard to imagine Discord without musical bots. They’ve become keys to the experience and bring so much fun and commitment to the community. It’s the end of a sad time for everyone in the world. platform ”.