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
    • Gray@lemmy.caEnglish
      44·
      2 years ago

      Not being able to open image in new tab and download them anymore has made it functionally useless for me.

      • Crudman@lemm.eeEnglish
        13·
        2 years ago

        Been looking for this word, it’s so perfectly succinct and evocative of the Web 3.0 sludgeworld.

        Search engines are almost entirely useless now. As much as I’d love an indie alternative, sending out millions of webcrawlers seems prohibitively expensive.

  • pgm_01@kbin.social
    37·
    2 years ago

    I love how Google’s original intent of simply cataloging the net has now turned them into a net nanny whose job it is to prohibit vile copyright scofflaws from infesting others with their demented thinking.

    • inspector@gadgetro.idEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Home of Christine and the Queens, Manu Chao, Justice, Metronomy, Parcels, Ed Banger Records…

      I’ve never heard of any of those artists…

      • saba@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        neither have I, but it’s who is listed on their website and perhaps who they’re worried about people downloading via newpipe?

        • inspector@gadgetro.idEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          If download is what they’re worried about, they should also have a look at yt-dlp then. Something that Google themselves have tried blocking before, but gave in because a lot of folks had pretty genuine use cases for yt-dlp

        • ElPussyKangaroo@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          IKR! The bangs feature is so frickin awesome! Idk if Brave Search has that, because I’m interested in using Brave, but I’m addicted to banging my way across the internet.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    This french copyright troll doesn’t hold any rights on YouTube (the website) so the DMCA removal request is invalid

    No content hosted on newpipe.net is owned by that copyright troll, nor there are instructions or links to pirate that exact content so I don’t understand how it it can be considered valid. I should be rejected, together with all the subsequent requests

  • Carter@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    I’m a YouTube Premium subscriber that uses NewPipe. If they kill it I’ll be unsubbing.

  • inverimus@lemm.eeEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    Top result on Google is newpipe.net for me. Perhaps NewPipe has already submitted a counter notice and it has been restored? That’s how the DMCA is supposed to work.

      • YⓄ乙 @aussie.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Ddg claims to be private but nobody knows. I would rather use a search engine based in EU than a search engine based in USA. USA and China are big redflags

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Definitely think this has been corrected because a search for “NewPipe” in an incognito window yields NewPipe.net as the first result with the Github, reddit, and F-Droid pages following.

  • t0fr@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Kind of surprised that Google didn’t already remove it considering it is an application that circumvents it’s own products But you know, it was bound to happen eventually

  • kenderguy@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    I saw a Louis Rossmann video on this. Honestly, corporations don’t even have to hide their intentions anymore. It’s really sad that they can do shit plain in sight for everyone to see, but blind only to the legal system.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      If the DMCA was sent by YouTube, ok. But in this case it has been sent by a french copyright troll that has nothing to do with YouTube

    • Chozo@kbin.social
      1·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, Google has been weirdly tolerant of NewPipe and other YT-scraping apps for a while. I wonder what changed.

      • DpwnShift@kbin.social
        4·
        2 years ago

        Interest rates? Reddit/Twitter/YouTube can’t just exist perpetually being unprofitable now, they have to actually have a pathway to revenue, since Venture Capitalists won’t just throw money at a hundred different projects, hoping one is successful…

        • madcaesar@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          It’s funny how every company’s goto to make more money is becoming an asshole.

          Should we fix our algorithm, filter out the Nazis, stop malicious ads, and make premium a reasonable price? 🤔 No, let’s go crack down on newpipe and adblockers instead!

  • KinkyMadman@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Google search is dead for me, i have been using duck duck go for about 5 years now. If I’m searching for newpipe, I expect to get newpipe as a result. If I dont its utter wank at indenxing the internet.