

Rythm, which is currently installed on more than 20 million Discord servers alone, was being powered by over 4TB of RAM and 1,000 CPU cores, according to Yoav, who is the developer behind the bot. Weeks after Google-owned YouTube shut down Groovy Bot, marking its first cease and desist, the popular video streaming platform is officially forcing Rythm to shut down.Ĭiting copyright violations, the search engine giant wants Rythm bot closed down within seven days, and the service that has more than 560 million users is complying by shutting down its bot on September 15th.įor those who are oblivious about the reason behind YouTube’s unprecedented warpath against Discord music bots, it all goes back to the fact that Discord users are playing music from YouTube videos without actually going to YouTube. The battle between YouTube and Discord music bots continues, and this time, Rythm, the most popular music bot on Discord is taking the hit.
