YouTube legal team contacted us · Issue #3872 · iv-org/invidious
github.com
They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...
  • アルケミー船長@lemmy.oneEnglish
    341·
    2 years ago

    HELLO?? Am I in some kind of weird fever dream? Can the people running the matrix simulation tap the breaks so I can actually assess one platform burning at a time please?

  • CalcProgrammer1English
    331·
    2 years ago

    I question whether lawyers are smart enough to understand what API means sometimes… They clearly aren’t using YouTube’s API so the whole letter is just false accusation. Maybe read the code first before making stupid allegations? No? This is a shitty for profit company? Makes sense in the current landscape I guess, all the shitty for profit services want to drive themselves into the ground for no reason now.

    • neosheo@beehaw.orgEnglish
      18·
      2 years ago

      I’ll be honest i haven’t read their code. So invidious is just scraping youtube to pull all the data?

      • m-p{3}English
        26·
        2 years ago

        Just scraping, so they’re not bound by the API TOS. Like YouTube-DL, YT-DLP, NewPipe, etc.

      • CalcProgrammer1English
        16·
        2 years ago

        According to the GitHub thread, yes. I think that’s how all of the open source apps work - youtube-dl, NewPipe, Invidious at least. Using the API would open them up to legal trouble because you have to agree to the terms to use the API. You don’t agree to the terms when scraping.

      • The DoctorEnglish
        14·
        2 years ago

        Yes. And the big G doesn’t care. If they have to lie and say it’s abusive and a violation of the ToS, they’ll say it is. They’re a megacorp, while Invidious is a small open source project.

    • rk96@lemmy.oneEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      This c&d wont do much since invidious didnt agree to any terms of service nor do they use youtube’s API, that is atleast what the developers of invidious said on github

    • nodiet@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      It seems to me that this article just describes the same situation as the github issue. I think they just used the term cease and desist. So no further escalation from what I can tell.

  • mranderson17English
    11·
    2 years ago

    So… Maybe I’m wrong about this, but doesn’t Invidious basically do the same thing that Google AMP claims to do. Cache scraped web data and return it to users in a fasterprivate, and more direct way? Maybe Google should be agreeing to more TOSs =]