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Apple Refusing Any BitTorrent Related Apps?
jamie pointed out what appears to be an unfortunate policy for Apple's app store that is refusing anything to do with BitTorrent. The example is a remote control app that allows a user to interface with their Transmission BitTorrent client. This certainly isn't the first complaint over app store policy. Issues from the return policy to the "objectionable content" of Nine Inch Nails have some developers concerned over what Apple is doing to the market. Of course, many are quick to remind that it is Apple's store and they are free to do whatever they want with it.
Is it really stealing if the media conglomerates refuse to sell it in other countries?
Yes it is, if you dont buy it from the sellers how they want to sell. But this has been debated forever already, and you must be a retard not to understand it.
What percentage of BitTorrent traffic would be non-infringing if the RIAA and MPAA didn't continuously give a negative connotation to the technology?
Wait, what? The majority of BitTorrent traffic is illegal only because the RIAA and MPAA mention that BitTorrent is used for exchanging illegal files? Is this some weird use of the "mind over matter" principle? Instead of, for example, the RIAA and MPAA calling the spade a spade.
MP3 became a considerably more popular audio format because of the widespread use of Napster,
So Napster was Ok because it allowed one audio format (which existed before Napster) become more popular?
It could even be argued that Apple wouldn't even have as strong of a user-base without Napster's influence.
It could also be argued that Apple's iTMS would have done three times the business if most users hadn't already amassed a large Napster-obtained MP3 collection. Of course, Apple doesn't even use your miraculous MP3 file format.
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