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
  • Screwthehole@lemmy.world
    69·
    1 year ago

    Every time I see an unskippable ad, or a second ad, or fuck even 15 seconds of ads, or I just want audio, I open newpipe instead. Hopefully it keeps working.

    • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one
      191·
      1 year ago

      Imagine a federated YouTube that load-balances server to server and every single individual instance was utilized for data storage and playback depending on the location of the viewer.

      Everyone pitches in, servers have stats that can be looked up.

      Imagine it.

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
        201·
        1 year ago

        Everyone pitches in

        Aaaaaand that idea is dead in the water.

        Something like Youtube requires way more bandwidth, storage and processing power per user than something like reddit. Which is why they’re trying to make more money.

        Lemmy works because it doesn’t take all that much in resources to run an instance, and having single digit percentage of your users chipping in can be enough. A decentralized YouTube would not work quite the same, and you’d have a hard time keeping the creators paid too.

        • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
          3·
          1 year ago

          I have servers that are seeding massive torrents 24/7. I have hundreds of terabytes uploaded.

          Let me load balance Peertube instances, damnit.

    • krzschlss@lemmy.fmhy.ml
      71·
      1 year ago

      It’s not just the tools you use, it’s the social/economic system those tools create that needs to change. To destroy the current system of profit and exploitation we all need to use different tools. Like crowbars, baseball bats, molotovs… Otherwise the Power and Influence will sell you yet another distraction in form of political discourse or a war somewhere where you choose between imaginary good and evil.

    • zxo@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      1 year ago

      NewPipe is one of my favorite apps, it is probably better than Invidious or Piped in my opinion because you don’t have to worry about a server being rate limited.

    • kernelPanic@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      Same, just the other day I googled piratebay on my friends computer and the original website is just not there. Such censorships are unknown to us

  • Melody Fwygon@lemmy.one
    14·
    1 year ago

    I would condemn Google; but it clearly states that a record label is targeting NewPipe; and not Google.

    Is this a very chilling action for Google to take? You bet your ass it is! While I won’t blame them outright for this; it is now blatantly evident that Google has stopped spending legal money to defend against DMCA actions against things that they or their parent company Alphabet clearly do not like.

    This is a blatant violation of Google and by extension Alphabet’s founding ethos; which is to “Do No Evil.” The ‘Enshittification of Alphabet’ has reared it’s ugly head again and it’s evident that is running through the company unchecked.

    I recommend people continue to use projects like NewPipe, Invidious and Piped as well as federated alternates such as PeerTube. I would also urge all large creators to begin archival of their footage on PeerTube itself if possible and to look into spinning up a PeerTube instance for their content to be hosted ON…so that their content does not vanish with Youtube as it steadily “Enshitifies” itself to death. Do this now while the Youtube monetization train is still chugging so that you can get your fans onboard and willing to fund the instance so they don’t lose your content.

    A note to creators: It will be easier to run off of Patreon and sponsors when on PeerTube; once Youtube has fallen.

  • nostalgicgamerz@lemmy.world
    14·
    1 year ago

    FYI: it’s still on GitHub. It’s just the search results removed. Honestly…. I’m unsure why they did go full douche and do a DMCA on the GitHub.

  • J_C___@lemmy.place
    141·
    1 year ago

    While I agree this is a horrible precedent to set, the real problem we will start to see as this post points out will be the clones popping up pushing malware APKs

    • zxo@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      1 year ago

      There’s already a malware variant on Google Play (but I don’t know how long it’s been there).

  • zxo@sopuli.xyz
    12·
    1 year ago

    Good ol’ enshittification. I’m glad that I haven’t used Google Search for a couple of years now, things serm to be getting even worse on it than other search engines. Fuck Google.

  • bxyrk@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    1 year ago

    Of course I went and redownloaded newpipe because I was reminded of it’s existence lol. It’s been a pretty good option for a while now. I mean I DO have YouTube premium and almost always use YouTube music for listening to streaming music, but the extreme ease of downloading is always a plus. A lot of the content creators I follow I like to give their videos traffic, but for a download on mobile, works great