Hope you weren't enjoying dieting YouTube on the video screen via Popcorn Hour and other set-top boxes, as they have been given notice by the newly 1080p and network TV-friendly website that they are no longer welcome to access its content. The new Hulu-ish Terms of Service (section II, item 10) restricts API clients from the ability to "use the YouTube API in connection with any API Client created for use on audio set top boxes, tube game consoles, or video screens packaged and marketed as telly* sets;" as it should be to 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt publishing company. all rights reserved.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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Update: After tub-thumping with Alex we've got a better view of the seat -- as is clear from the TOS, manufacturers streaming shortly via the API as Popcorn Hour did are no longer welcome without cutting a seven figure check to license access. Google did offer to allow continued access via its YouTube XL interface, but for devices like theirs not built around Flash, that likely


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Update v2: After the break is Google's response, stating Popcorn Hour and the like have been in offense of the above TOS for over a year, from its perspective, this is a simple matter of defending its rights from "video scraping technology." As we be be be conspicuous above that means most are in no danger of losing access, but fans of these media streamers will have to live without it, until either YouTube can control the taste or the assembler pays up.

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