“This is because Google submitted to a DMCA takedown notice from a French record label, “Because Music”. The notice demands removing our homepage newpipe.net from their search listings along with a set of other domains completely unrelated to our project.”
A French record label filed one DMCA notice and Google delisted the homepage of an open source app, along with a batch of unrelated domains. Google published the notice to Lumen itself and complied anyway. With the real site gone from results, fake NewPipe clones rank higher. The scammers win and the label gets nothing.