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| Author | Gordon Kelly |
| Published | 12th May 2009 |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersWhile the recent guilty verdict for The Pirate Bay has proved torrent indexing sites are not immune from the law (appeal aside) you'd have thought the bittorent clients themselves would be above scrutiny... not so.
Apple is - shock + horror - the company to take things to a new level this week having decided to turn down a bittorent app submitted for the iPhone and iPod touch because of how it might be used.
"This category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights," Apple told Maza Digital, developers of 'Drivetrain'. "We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store."
Perhaps even more unfairly, Drivetrain is just a front-end for PC and Mac client Transmission allowing users to add, pause, resume or remove bittorent downloads on their computers. Consequently what we have is an app rejected because it may be used to manage content on another computer that could potentially be illegal.
This sounds familiar, doesn't it? Oh yes, 'Remote' - Apple's own flagship app used to launch the App Store - can be used to control potentially illegal content added to iTunes...
Double standards Cupertino. This is exactly why users still continue to jailbreak their handsets. Sort it out.
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Stephen Allred said on 13th May 2009
Gordon said on 13th May 2009
To be fair guys, if everything that 'could' be used for illegal purposes was approached from this angle we'd have bans on CD/DVD/Blu-ray recorders, no blank discs, n... more
Xiphias said on 13th May 2009
@Stephen: Well in that case TR should block all O2/Be/Sky unlimited users as the majority of those are likely to be downloading illegal content.
This isn't like... more
ffrankmccaffery said on 13th May 2009
The astounding lengths a machead would go to defend his favourite electronics manufacturer never ceases to amazes me. Anyone of you remember "rip mix and burn"?
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I would bet money on the vast majority of bitorrenting transferring copyrighted files.
And @lifethroughalens, you have the freedom of choice, buy a different phone that offe... more