Bots are vital tools of Discord and helped the popular voice app grow immensely. Discord community members create and publish various bots, allowing everyone to use them on servers and add functionality to Discord. One of the most useful bots on Discord is the YouTube music bot. This lets you play audio in voice channels.
Today’s victim is a popular YouTube music bot Vexera; it runs on over 3 million servers. Here’s why the team discontinued its service across Discord.
YouTube Blocks The Popular Discord Music Bot
As the Vexera website says, the service closure was effective immediately. Considering the reason is a copyright claim from YouTube, they couldn’t keep running the service. Yes, streaming YouTube videos on Discord violates YouTube’s terms of service. Discord users don’t watch or listen to YouTube ads and don’t let the site collect data.
Even though it’s not required, everyone would expect YouTube to show some tolerance for the bots. Since YouTube is a site created mainly by the community, it should have avenues for people who want to link to their service. However, without ads, YouTube can’t make money from these potential listeners. It would be better if video creators had an option in their YouTube policy to let third-party apps stream their videos.
Discord streaming was working like a radio in most servers, and some servers only existed for people to hop in and listen to some tunes. Some viewers undoubtedly discovered new YouTube channels or music they liked, but if YouTube can’t monetize it, they would rather shut it down.
