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Apple Accepts, Then Rejects BitTorrent iPhone App

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-up-yer-mind-wouldja dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple recently approved an iPhone app called IS Drive, which lets users check and manage downloads from ImageShack.us, while also offering users the option to use the company's BitTorrent service to download files to their ImageShack account. Once Apple got wind of what the app was capable of, however, it was promptly removed from iTunes."

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  1. Re:Seems strange they approved it at all by alexhs · · Score: 2, Informative

    FTFA, the app was previously rejected under the name "Jack Torrents".
    After the last developer guideline change, it was resubmitted as "IS Drive", hiding the fact that it was actually doing BitTorrent (from the article video, isoHunt and Mininova tabs have also been hidden along the name change, for example).
    That's why the app got approved...

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  2. Re:How many types are secretly banned? by Thinine · · Score: 5, Informative

    No, Apple recently released all of their criteria publicly, and this standard was on that list. http://developer.apple.com/appstore/guidelines.html

  3. Re:Bandwidth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I, on the other hand, would waste all of my unlimited bandwidth, if i could.

    Reminds me of the SNL sketch where the people who "ruin it for the rest of us" talked about their adventures. Why gas station bathrooms now have locks, etc.

    See Tragedy of the Commons, except with out the economic benefit from depleting the common resource

  4. Re:How many types are secretly banned? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    You can't look at it without logging in and agreeing to some contract with Apple. Doesn't sound very public to me.