Google has filed a cease and desist against the creator of Groovy, a popular music bot on the voice messaging service Discord. Groovy allowed Discord users to add music to the platform’s chat rooms.

Parent company Google claims the software runs afoul of its terms of service. Google is shutting down Discord's popular Groovy music bot, claiming the software runs ...

There's no lack of Discord music bots out there – bots that you can add to a server that will then play music in voice channels – but unfortunately, Google is shutting down one of the most popular ...

Google-owned YouTube is finally cracking down on Discord’s Groovy music bot, which had sourced and played music from the streaming platform on more than 16 million servers for years right under its ...

After news broke two weeks ago that Google-owned YouTube had forced Groovy bot offline, it was widely considered to be only a matter of time before the platform came for the other popular Discord bots ...

Rythm will shut down on Wednesday The bot gained over 30 million users over five years of service Rythm's creators are currently working on a different project that could replace the bot after the ...

Say goodbye to Groovy on August 30. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. YouTube has issued a cease-and-desist order against the ...

YouTube is first and foremost a place to share videos, but the platform has long been a great place to stream music essentially for free. Sometimes, that functionality gets abused, and YouTube has to ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Just weeks after forcing the Groovy Discord music bot offline, Google-owned ...