Comment Re:Free or free (Score 2) 103
If it would've been free for listener on Youtube, who surely still get the play counts to assess artist payment, then no harm, no foul. It's just a different interface to access that free content. More akin to a custom, site-specific browser.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong on this, I haven't looked into it for this app specifically, but these sorts of alternate frontends for Youtube do tend to block Youtube's ads. Views only pay for themselves if there's ad revenue being generated from those views, otherwise this is just leeching Youtube's bandwidth and adding to the views that Youtube will have to pay the royalties on without giving anything back. I'm not going to tell people not to use ad blockers or these sorts of alternative frontends, I block ads myself any one person's costs to Youtube for doing so are vanishingly small, but in aggregate if you're one of many thousands of users all doing the same it start to add up so don't kid yourself thinking there really is "no harm, no foul" doing so.