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Google demands YouTube app be removed from Windows Phone Store

article published on 15 May, 2013

Google has written a cease and desist letter to Microsoft, demanding that it remove an updates YouTube app for the Windows Phone operating systems. Microsoft recently released an updated YouTube app for Windows Phone that raised some eyebrows as it clearly seemed to violate the terms and conditions of the YouTube API. At the center of Google's anger is the deliberate blocking out of ads by the app. ... [ read the full article ]

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Qliphah
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_ 		16. May 2013 @ 14:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
"disable existing downloads of the application," by May 22.


Oh this might get interesting.
Microsoft may have to uninstall or delete content from users phones without their consent and that would be hilarious. Even more so if google forces them to turn over all records of IPs that have already downloaded copyrighted content.

And I'm no lawyer but Microsoft would probably have to take full responsibility for any lawsuits or customers hurt feelings. It's sad to see google be a dick like this. But the fact that PC users have been able to do all these things for years and google knows they can't do anything to stop it might be some form of payback.
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DADEO1
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_ 		17. May 2013 @ 09:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Put the code out there for free for everybody.
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SergoT
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_ 		17. May 2013 @ 11:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Again Google vs Microsoft or Microsoft vs Google.

Are all YouTube apps have been developed by other developers should be removed as well?
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Mr-Movies
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_ 		17. May 2013 @ 11:14 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I'm actually rooting for Microsoft on this one even though they should lose the case based on this article.
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bstringer
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_ 		17. May 2013 @ 22:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Google can't allow Microsoft to provide Windows Phone users a capability that would never be allowed on the Google Play Store for Android phones.
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