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Invidious Jun 8, 2023

[Announcement]

As a matter of transparency, please be aware that Youtube's legal team contacted us.

See https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872 for more details.

Also, in the event where the main repository was taken down, be aware that our code is backed up at https://gitea.invidious.io/iv-org

-SamantazFox

YouTube legal team contacted us · Issue #3872 · iv-org/invidious

They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. What now? Things will continue normally until they can't anymore. Assume ...

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Henrý Ólson Jun 9, 2023

@invidious Will there be plans for development to move from github to gitea? Right now it looks like the gitea repo just a mirror.

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@nemo We're prepared, yes, but the move is unlikely.

I don't really see on what legal basis they'd ask Github to shutdown our repo (a DMCA claim is not applicable, and we violate none of their intellectual property nor ToS).

-SamantazFox