Articles Tagged ‘piracy’
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Apple’s Streaming Preview Of Daft Punk’s New Album Leads To Free Download
BY Lory Gil on Fri May 17th, 2013
Just because you can pirate an unreleased album, doesn’t mean you should.
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Chinese Writers Cry Foul Over Alleged Apple-Assisted Book Piracy
BY Aldrin Calimlim on Mon March 19th, 2012
It seems as though China had been turning the tables on Apple lately as far as IP is concerned.
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AppAdvice Daily: Stop SOPA And PIPA Now!
BY Robin Rhys on Wed January 18th, 2012
As many of you may have noticed, the Web is rather dark today. You may have gone to Wikipedia only to find a black page. Sites like Wikipedia and reddit are going dark in protest of SOPA and PIPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. On today's AppAdvice Daily we take a look at what SOPA and PIPA are, why you should care, and what you can do to help.
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Apple's Making It More Difficult To Download Popular Cracked Apps
BY Andy Faust III on Fri December 30th, 2011
apptrackr, the popular iOS piracy resource and maker of the jailbreak app Installous, has been feeling the wrath of justice of late. The crooks published news of Apple's efforts to eradicate many of their website's
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iWake With AppAdvice For Thursday Now Available
BY Tim Chaten on Thu December 22nd, 2011
Good morning! Today's iWake is now available. Have a listen ...
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Jailbreaking vs. Pirating: What's The Difference?
BY Mitchell James on Wed December 29th, 2010
Jailbreaking and pirating, what's the difference? If you don't know the difference, or are still confused by these two concepts, I suggest you take a look at this article.
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iOS Piracy Goes P2P & Mac App Store Gets Cracked
BY Alexander Vaughn on Mon December 27th, 2010
We're learning that iOS and app piracy is on the verge of taking on a whole new dimension due to some major developments made by the iOS app cracking community.
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Will The New SHAtter Jailbreak Disallow Pirating Apps? Update: Nope
BY Harry on Mon October 04th, 2010
According to a recent post on Twitter by the Chronic Dev Team, makers of the infamous SHAtter exploit that will jailbreak all current iOS devices for life (Yes, even your precious Apple TV), the new exploit may disallow the ability to use Installous or similar applications to download cracked App Store apps (note, AppAdvice does not condone the use of such apps) .
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How Many Jailbreakers Pirate Apps? A Lot More Than You Think
BY Alexander Vaughn on Tue August 10th, 2010
We are strongly against pirated apps. We think the benefits are dwarfed by the amount of damage they create. Yet, it's still a very real phenomena and it's larger than you may think. How many App Store pirates are there, and why does this community exist? We got in touch with the creator of the largest App Store pirating service to find out more.
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Why you'll ask Apple for MORE DRM on ebooks
BY Michael Jeans on Thu March 25th, 2010
If the presence of DRM would allow you to legally get NYT bestsellers for free or read them for only $0.99, wouldn't you supprt that? The fact that Apple is using FairPlay to protect eBooks may make that possible.
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Appulo.us Goes Officially Under
BY Alexander Vaughn on Sun February 14th, 2010
The controversially famous Appulo.us web platform is no more. It's founder, Kyek, just pulled the plug, leaving only a front page and a couple dissertations on the site. The reason for the shut down is
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Jailbreakers, Change Your Default Password !
BY Alexander Vaughn on Wed November 04th, 2009
If you Jailbroke and installed OpenSSH at some point, you might be at risk. It's nothing new really and today the problem is widely diminished by the fact that OpenSSH is optional when you jailbreak,
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Rally Master Pro 3D Has A Tough First Day, Gets Hit With A 95% Piracy Rate
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed October 28th, 2009
Fishlabs released their first paid iPhone and iPod touch game on October 26th titled Rally Master Pro 3D. That first day of availability can be an exciting time for developers as they are constantly checking
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How Bad Is Piracy In The App Store? Pinch Media Takes A Look
BY Tyler Tschida on Tue October 13th, 2009
Pinch Media recently shared some data that they presented at the 360iDev conference regarding the state of piracy in the App Store and the results are definitely interesting, if not somewhat surprising. Pinch Media decided
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Car Jack Streets Gets Jacked
BY Tyler Tschida on Wed April 29th, 2009
It was only yesterday that we announced the release of a brand new game titled Car Jack Streets for the iPhone, and it only took one day for those pesky pirates to make an impact
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Apple Says Jailbreaking Is Illegal
BY Tyler Tschida on Fri February 13th, 2009
Every three years, exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act can be proposed to the Copyright Office and if accepted will be valid for three years. In December 2008, the Electronic Frontier Foundation filed an
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