About Us

We built Yout with the idea that a legal stream format shifting tool (DVR) for the internet that was clean, easy, and not spammy needed to exist.

According to the EFF.org "The law is clear that simply providing the public with a tool for copying digital media does not give rise to copyright liability".

  • 2014

    During 2014 Yout was researched and programmed by John Nader

  • 2015

    Yout launched on Dec 5th, 2015, with a last bit of frontend help by Lou Alcala


    Yout went to number one on ProductHunt on Dec 6th, 2015

  • 2016

    Yout founder did an AMA on Reddit on Jan 9th, 2016


    An unnamed engineer who wrote a one-off blog post about our specific issue, ported our code from python to golang; therefore fixing the scaling issue over a weekend, because ?. Did give Yout's code an 8.5 though.

  • 2017

    Yout incorporated as Yout LLC on 15 May, 2017.

  • 2019

    Yout reached on the now defunct alexa website ranking a worldwide ranking of 887 largest website in the world. The highest it had ever been on the website rankings in the world.


    On October 25th, 2019 The Record Industry Association of America (RIAA) sent a takedown notice to google, delisting Yout from the majority of search traffic around the world, featuring it in TorrentFreak and other news publications.

  • 2020

    On October 25th, 2020 Yout filed suit against the RIAA for defamation

  • 2021

    On February 15th, 2021, Yout receives a trademark from the USPTO for the term 'Yout' for 'Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for format-shifting.'


    A bunch of things happen


    On August 5th, 2021 the district court of Connecticut dismissed without prejudice Yout's complaint against the RIAA


    On September 14th 2021 Yout filed a second amended complaint


  • 2022

    That complaint was then later dismissed with prejudice by the Connecticut district court


    After the district court made its ruling Yout filed a notice of appeal on Oct 20, 2022


    With the appeal pending, RIAA filed a motion requesting $250,000 USD from Yout


    Yout requested the motion to be stayed while the appeal is pending, the Connecticut district court dismissed without prejudice the RIAA's motion with a chance to refile after the appeal

  • 2023

    Yout then filed its appeal on February 2nd, 2023


    The EFF filed an amicus brief in Yout's favor.


    Microsoft owned Github filed a neutral amicus brief, but then filed a blog post further explaining its stance


  • 2024

    Yout's appeal was argued in front of the United States Second Circuit court of appeals


    Roughly that brings us to present day; if not, we are sure you can search around for a more recent update


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