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The iOS 7 Jailbreak Fiasco
Bismillah writes "Evad3rs' new iOS 7 jailbreak featured a Chinese app store that sold pirated software, and which was pulled from Evasi0n7 soon after launch. Latest rumors say that the exploit used for Evasi0n7 was stolen by a certain person, offered up for sale, so the Evad3rs did a deal with TaiG instead. Jay 'Saurik' Freeman of Cydia meanwhile isn't happy about the whole thing, saying he was given no time to test Evasi0n7."
"Apart from the revenue I should have got." is one big problem in your logic. I have pirated a big pile of stuff through the years. But if I couldn't have pirated them, I would NEVER have bought them. Ever. I don't go to the movies and I don't buy movies but I download and watch them for free sometimes. If I can't watch a Hollywood movie, either because I can't find a pirated version with good enough image quality or because the movie is so incredibly bad that I have to stop watching (which happens more and more by the way) I go and watch some fan-movie, documentary or something else.
So I'm arguing that Hollywood haven't lost a dime because of me. I'm not paying them whether I'm pirating or not.