YouTube C&Ds

[Tomparkes93]

With YouTube giving Groovy, and now Rhythm a Cease and Desist, what are the chances they will ask you to do the same for this project? Would it even have any effect because we all self-host our own versions

[jianmingyong]

I predict that only source code could probably hit the cease and desist but private bots are just impossible to target.
(or just kill method used to download music by this bot)

[jagrosh]

I highly doubt that anything would be done about this project, as this repository (jagrosh/MusicBot) does not contain any code that accesses content from YouTube. It does utilize other libraries (namely, lavaplayer) that can be used to access multiple different sources, so if anything, that's what would get taken down.

[Sanduhr32]

I personally think lavaplayer is legally on the same level as https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl with it's functionality

[YJSoft]

Primary reason for C&D is "modifying the service and using it for commercial purposes".

JMusicBot is not modifying youtube's service, nor let people using for commercial purposes(like premium features that both taken down bots had).