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Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"

Posted by timothy on from the sweet-of-them dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes "After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digital content continued to bear the full name Jailbreak."

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  1. Re:Apple... by cupantae · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm not criticising American ideals or the American people, but this kind of behaviour is made possible by unregulated free-market capitalism. America is not at that extreme, but it is surely closer to it than any other country.
    Since Stalinist Russia was all about centralisation, the very fact that Apple is a private company means it has little in common with it.

    Pre-empting moderators:
    Off-topic: I was responding to this post, which is itself a response to the story.
    Troll/Flamebait: I don't think anyone here should be defending Apple in this case. This is a very real and transparent attempt to limit the freedoms of their users which conflict with their own financial interests.

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  2. What. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    >slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content

    What.