From music players to sound recording
Mar 23rd, 2022, 2:42 pm
Mangy wrote:
After 4yrs Google suddenly had the epiphany that vanced was infringing on the YouTube name & logo ffs LMAO. There are soo many other apps which use a logo similar to YouTube`s and the vanced logo was pretty modified. Shallow justification![/quote]

I wouldn`t trust Vanced to tell the truth about why they were shutdown. From that link they try to say it was piracy or loss of income, but what they say isn`t correct.

"The main source of income for youtube isn`t ads. YouTube revolves around the merchandise and YouTube Premium subscriptions." Merchandise? "According to the latest revenue figures from YouTube parent Alphabet, in just the first nine months of 2021, YouTube generated $20.21 billion from advertising." So they do make most of their money off advertising. (https://www.investopedia.com/articles/p ... videos.asp)

"If you are talking about creators who are not earning money for using vanced, you should know they won`t make millions out of those ads." What? There is a big difference between making money and making millions. I wouldn`t want to lose my paycheck, which is nowhere near millions. To be clear, I am not crying for youtube creators, I am simply saying their logic is flawed.

"The Vanced team never forced anyone to use vanced. It is in fact user`s sole discretion whether they want to use such apps or not." Wow, now they are blaming the users. This seems a strange thing to say in their "proof" it wasn`t the loss of advertising.

And in a different section they say "Background playback with PIP: Almost every media player app you can think of has background playback and PIP. You can debate about it being piracy but if you are, consider every media app on the internet, the top being VLC distributing such features free of cost."

So if a lot of other apps have it, then it must be OK. But they end with it was because of the Logo, which as you noted a ton of other apps have it. So they contradict themselves.

While the legal letter may very well have said because of the logo. I would say they were targeted because they were very popular and were costing Google money, and it set a bad example if they let it continue. And stating it was the logo, is a easy legal fight.

Further, if it was just the logo, then google could have let Vanced change the logo. Instead google wanted them totally shut down.
Google never tells about how much they profit from their products. They only tell about the revenue.
Mar 23rd, 2022, 2:42 pm
Mar 25th, 2022, 5:39 pm
I can`t download anything, anyone know how to fix it?
Mar 25th, 2022, 5:39 pm