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YouTube has issued a cease-and-desist order against the creator of Groovy, who has agreed to shut down the widely-popular music bot on August 30th. PC Gamer reports:
Effectively a tool for adding background tunes to a chat room, Groovy worked by pulling audio directly from YouTube videos, joining voice calls, and playing music queued up by users […]. It was ridiculously popular, reportedly installed on over 16 million servers. But it seems Google wasn’t so hot on the bot, with a spokesperson for the company told The Verge that Groovy violated YouTube’s terms of service for “modifying the service and using it for commercial purposes.”
In that same report, Groovy creator Nik Ammerlaan (who made the bot because “my friend’s bot sucked and I thought I could make a better one”) admitted that this was likely a long-time coming. Groovy circumvents YouTube’s front-end and advertising entirely. “I’m not sure why they decided to send it [a cease and desist] now,” said Ammerlaan. “They probably just didn’t know about it, to be honest. It was just a matter of seeing when it would happen.”