Update 13th July: The DMCA notice was rescinded with no further comment. Our landing page appears to be listed in Google’s search results again. 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
    4·
    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.

    • McBinary@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Between SmartTube for my Chromecast, Vanced, and now ReVanced, I haven’t seen an ad or sponsor on YouTube in years.

    • Anamana@feddit.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a Newpipe with Sponsorblock as well btw, on the izzyrepo. It’s so convenient

  • wakamo@lemmy.ml
    3·
    1 year ago

    It has been resolved can search “Newpipe” and I get real site at #1 result.

    • BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one
      11·
      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
        1·
        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
          1·
          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.

  • yaaaaayPancakes@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    It appears to be resolved now. I’m getting newpipe.net, the Github repo, and the FDroid store entry as the top three hits. I am glad Louis posted this video for attention to the DMCA problem, but it appears that things are not as dire as he makes it out to be.

    • 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