Wired reports that Apple has rejected a BitTorrent iPhone application. Apple says "this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store."
Apple Rejects iPhone BitTorrent App
May 12, 2009
Share this post
3 Comments
Law Bytes
Episode 201: Robert Diab on the Billion Dollar Lawsuits Launched By Ontario School Boards Against Social Media Giants
byMichael Geist
April 22, 2024
Michael Geist
April 15, 2024
Michael Geist
April 8, 2024
Michael Geist
March 25, 2024
Michael Geist
Search Results placeholder
Recent Posts
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 201: Robert Diab on the Billion Dollar Lawsuits Launched By Ontario School Boards Against Social Media Giants
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 200: Colin Bennett on the EU’s Surprising Adequacy Finding on Canadian Privacy Law
- Debating the Online Harms Act: Insights from Two Recent Panels on Bill C-63
- The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 199: Boris Bytensky on the Criminal Code Reforms in the Online Harms Act
- AI Spending is Not an AI Strategy: Why the Government’s Artificial Intelligence Plan Avoids the Hard Governance Questions
Yet Apple fanboys won’t care
Apple fanboy army is still growing, and they do not care about freedom, they do not care about walled garden built by Apple and the like
Doesn’t the iPhone…
allow you to play music from the iTunes stores??? Sounds like a case of protecting their own revenue streams…
Didn’t they allow the “Shaken Baby” app for a few hours?
Apple makes products used for illegal purposes, duh!
Apple pulls out the lamest reason ever. So what else is new?
If everything that COULD be used for illegal purposes was withdrawn, then we wouldn’t be allowed to use the phone (can be used to arrange drug deals), drive on the roads (used to transport stolen goods), etc.
You can use the iPhone’s Safari browser to access all kinds of sites with illegal content, like kiddie porn. So why is Safari a standard install on the iPhone? Oh, right, Apple exempts themselves.
Surely, His Steveness knows that Apple computers are used to create, upload, and download kiddie porn. People use Apple’s Mail program to arrange drug deals. They use Apple’s iChat to transmit pornographic videos to other people. How can he sleep at night knowing his products are used for illegal purposes.
Just close the company down, Steve. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube.