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You can put in place all the contractual provisions you want with the user but your relationship with the user is irrelevant. It is your relationship with the h
by grabeh 10y ago
You can put in place all the contractual provisions you want with the user but your relationship with the user is irrelevant. It is your relationship with the host/owner of the content that matters.
Streamus attracted Google's ire because it bypassed ads and separated out audio and visual content. Both of these attributes look to be features of your proposed app. On that basis it is likely to attract Google's attention.
Having said that, it's likely that they wouldn't bother pursuing you until your app became popular, as was the case with Streamus...
- SeanAnderson 10y agoSorry, just to clarify -- Streamus did not bypass ads. The minimum allowed video player is 200px * 200px, their ad network doesn't run on that small of a player because advertisers were unwilling to pay to have their ad shown that small. I was initially accused of this by their legal department, but if you read through the entire e-mail chain, you'll see they eventually relent and admit that advertisements are not an issue. Additionally, I did patch in support for video content (and wrote a huge post on the tech. challenges of it: https://medium.com/@MeoMix/beautifully-buffered-bytes-ff798eca58a https://medium.com/@MeoMix/beautifully-buffered-bytes-ff798e...), but that proved insufficient. YouTube took the view point that Chrome extensions should function similar to mobile apps not like browser tabs. They indicated they wanted the music paused whenever the main UI window minimized. I argued that would be like pausing YouTube when you click between tabs. They disagreed and terminated my API access.