Popular Discord music bot Rythm has received a cease and desist from YouTube, following fellow bot Groovy's forced closure last month.

For those unfamiliar, Rythm is a bot allowing Discord users to play music from YouTube videos. YouTube is home to a vast amount of official music videos from various artists, and Rythm was in use ...

YouTube is targeting music bots on other platforms, and this time it has ordered Rythm to shut down.

What are Discord bots? Discord bots are AI-powered tools that automate tasks and add music, games, welcome messages, memes, and other interesting content to your server.

Rythm is the most widely-used Discord music bot by a long shot, with an estimated 560 million Discord users, about 30 million of them are active each month.