Google and Apple Order Telegram To Nuke Channel Over Taylor Swift Piracy (torrentfreak.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Instant messaging client Telegram has for the first time blocked access to an entire channel following pressure from Google and Apple. A channel, called Any Suitable Pop, was found distributing copyright infringed copies of songs from Taylor Swift's new album 'Reputation'. It's understood that following complaints from Universal Music, Google and Apple ordered Telegram to take action.

Comments

What?

[DontBeAMoran]

Did someone warn people in southern England and northern France?

And since when does Google and Apple have nukes?!

so google and apple control the net now?

[Anonymous Coward]

because everything has been "app-ified", they can just threaten to delete an app off billions of devices if you don't play along with whatever they demand?

fuck that.

Re:Really?

[Gregg M]

She's pretty, talented, and rich.

But F^@& her if she doesn't want us stealing her music!!!!

Re:Really?

[Arzaboa]

I wouldn't know who this was if her music hadn't been shared outside of the ToS.

--
Who are you? - The Who

Re:Nuked because of Taylor Swift piracy?

[thegarbz]

Oh cute, you're assuming the artist gives a shit as opposed to some militant bottom feeding "every streamed copy is a lost sale" middleman.

Am I the only one here old enough

[rsilvergun]

to remember swapping binaries over mIRC and the like? This is like that. It's a chat client and it looks like it lets you send binaries and folks were passing MP3s. What makes it odd is that the company making the app can ban channels. I would've thought it'd all be P2P.