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They should immediately rename it so as not to be caught the way YouTube Vanced was. A disclaimer is not a sufficient response to trademark issues.

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Or do this:

1. Release it as youtube.js for the name recognition

2. Wait for the certified letter

3. Announce you're renaming your project and get another 24 hours of exposure in the news

This guy is playing the game.

Something like this lives or dies based on how much you annoy the people with lawyers to spare. Doesn't seem like the best plan.

Is there any better plan in an era where the real currency is attention?

I doubt having the project named after youtube is that important for attention.

The attention comes from the stories that happen after they leak the C&D that Alphabet is going to send them for naming it after youtube, then quickly roll out a rename.

Well ... good luck to them I guess. That does not sound like a plan I'd personally enjoy.

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