Apple Lifts Ban on BitTorrent Apps, Or So It Seems

Ernesto
September 7, 2012
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Ever since the inception of the App Store, Apple has notoriously banned all apps related to BitTorrent. However, those who conduct a search for BitTorrent in the App Store today will be surprised to see that Apple returns two search results. One app allows users to control the mufti-platform BitTorrent client Transmission and the other one does the same for uTorrent. This begs the question, did Apple lift its BitTorrent ban?

Over the past years dozens of apps have been rejected from the App Store because they mention the word BitTorrent.

Apple defended this policy and told developers that their apps were not allowed “because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights.”

This BitTorrent aversion is also one of the main reasons why popular BitTorrent clients such as uTorrent, Vuze and Transmission don’t have an Apple-approved presence on the iPhone and iPad.

However, last week “Conttrol” was added to the App Store. The application allows uTorrent users to interact with their desktop client through the Web-UI in order to start, stop, add or delete torrents.

“Currently the app supports connections to uTorrent & BitTorrent clients but there are future plans to support Transmission on the Mac, as well as planned development of a native iPad version,” Conttrol developer Craig Donnelly told TorrentFreak.

While other BitTorrent apps slipped by Apple’s review team for a day or two, Conttrol’s entrance into the App store is not an isolated incident. A few months ago Apple also blessed Transmission RPC, a remote control for the Transmission popular client.

An interesting development to say the least.

It’s worth pointing out that neither app allows users to download files to the iPhone or iPad, they merely serve as a remote interface for desktop clients. However, that didn’t prevent Apple from issuing a publication ban on similar apps in the past.

Could it be that Apple has lifted its BitTorrent ban, or were these apps given the green light by mistake?

Conttrol developer Craig Donnelly told TorrentFreak that he hopes Apple changed its tune after realizing that there are many perfectly legal uses for BitTorrent.

“We all know there is a stigma associated with the BitTorrent protocol and that it is heavily associated with piracy. But I think this attitude has changed in recent years, and will change even further in the future.”

Earlier this week BitTorrent Inc. released their first mobile uTorrent client for Android. The company told TorrentFreak that there are no concrete plans for an iOS version of uTorrent, but perhaps that will change if Apple keeps accepting BitTorrent apps.

Time will tell…

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At long last Apple enters the 21st century, and not before time as their banning of all thing torrent-related was costing them hard cash as folks simply bought goods more suited for them.

Well done Apple – now don’t fuck it up coz we, the people, will be watching closely what you do now.
- Werner Keil
  
  Just like when they finally gave in to unencrypted MP3s in iTunes, because people were avoiding them, or accept HTML5 (only to later claim, they “invented” it;-) Time brings reason even to the most resilient foes of true innovation.
  - http://twitter.com/stormstereo stormstereo
    
    Well, you do know that Apple was pushing the record companies towards DRM free songs, not the other way around? It took a while to convince them. Likewise, they have been one of the most stubborn advocates for standardized Webkit and HTML5. I’ve never heard them claim they invented HTML5. Where did you hear that?
    
    With that said, I’m not sure Conttrol and Transmission RPC will stay in the app store but I truly hope so!
    - Giggaflop
      
      Sounds like bullshit to me, just like when your “average Joe American” claim they won the second world war single handed, just repeating the same bullshit they get force fed by big corporations and business to keep them docile
    - Guest321
      
      Not only does it sound like bullshit, it IS bullshit.
    - http://twitter.com/AliceBartell Alice Bartell
      
      That is how much I like someone else deciding what I can and can not do with hardware I own. http://knightDeal.blogspot.com
    - Alex
      
      “stubborn advocates”
      
      What do you mean stubborn? Flash needs to die, already. It should have died years ago. Adobe have demonstrated they can’t be trusted and as such anyone pushing HTML5 is doing the right thing in my books.
- Guest321
  
  It will take a lot more than one minor move like this for Apple to move into the 21st century. They are easily one of the most restrictive companies in the world.
Hogspace

I’d rather drink bleach than pay Apple for their products.
“because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights.”
Says it all. Jobs, die you motherfucker….oh yes, as you were.
- Truth
  
  If they paid me to take the hardware, I would still say no. That is how much I like someone else deciding what I can and can not do with hardware I own. Yes I know you can jailbreak the previous and current generation, but when they eventually release a version that can’t be broken ? Why pay for something that you do not want, are you sheep ?
  Well I know that everything can be broken is is just a question of how long it would be to break, say that to jailbreak you would have to decap the cpu and scan it with an microscope to reverse engineering the unique public encryption keys hardcoded into the silicon. That encrypted software is pushed to function on your device and yours alone. Once you have the public key then you would have to workout the private key held by apple to allow them to push updates/software, and if you know anything about crypto you know how long that will take.
  
  A similar, but not the same, route to the direction Microsoft wants motherboard manufacturers to take with the Windoze 8, public key BIOS’s.
  - ScrewEwe2
    
    I read that Windows 8 will have a new feature called “Windows SmartScreen”, which will be turned on by default, and will report back to Redmond about every single application or program you try to install from the Internet in order to check whether or not it is signed with a proper certificate, approved by Microshit.This could mean less advanced users and noobs to filesharing could be scared off from installing some hacked or cracked software more easily, to cut down on piracy. It would be interesting to find out how much personally identifiable information gets transmitted back to Microshit with the information about the program in question. This could mean for them, User Account Controls will be User Machine Controlled.
    
    As for Apple products, I am not interested in any of their overpriced and overhyped products. I’ll stick with Windows XP Pro for some older programs and peripherals, but will continue to use Windows 7 as my main OS until forever. I’ve played around with Ubuntu for a few years just to gain some knowledge, but it really isn’t an OS that offers me anything superior to W7. Having said that, MicroGates and Apple are both control freaks.
    - krypz
      
      you do know that, since xp i think, whenever you connect to windoze update micr0$0ft opens a hidden, encrypted channel and reads all your directories already, right? never, ever allow your machine to connect to m$!
  - Bob
    
    I guess you also don’t buy DVD/Blu-ray players because they have region locks. Or any piece of electronics that you have even less control over than the iPhone, thermostat, microwave, TV, etc. IT’s a god damn phone! And the iPhone has given phones more freedom than you ever had before. Remember the dumb-phone days? You couldn’t do shit with them.
    - TheOiulkj
      
      Typical apple fanboy. You’ve obviously never used an Android. It’s about 1% phone and 99% computer. I can literally do anything on my android that I can do on my computer. A lot slower yes, but it can be done.
      
      I’ve owned an iphone before, and even after jailbreaking it, you are locked down like a sick dog. It’s truly for the technologically impaired.
    - JordanKratz
      
      Apple Fanboy I own a fliptop DUMB PHONE and have no intention of ever buying an iPhone.Nor do I have any intention of ever buying an Apple Computer.
      I happen to love my phone and it is used only to make phone calls.It is my landline in my hand.
      I can build really nice and stable Windows 7 64-Bit Desktops or run in Linux, ETC.
    - meowmix
      
      i couldn’t give a flying fuck about all the games, calenders, and all the other shite they put in so called dog and bones these days. as long as it makes phone calls and does the occasional text, then that’s job(s) done. all the rest is fluff for morons.
    - Anyone
      
      who buys DVD/Bluray players?
      they are useless nowadays, I don’t want to buy plastic discs that are ruined by a simple scratch
    - ths
      
      RIM has given the phone more freedom, not apple. RIM has given a reason to have data plan on phone and using it for something else than just call, you should really look into the past before commenting
    - retaliate
      
      It’s not just a phone, it’s also a prison.
    - Popehat
      
      You could make phone calls couldn’t you. That’s what a phone does.. Leave the computing to computers i say. i don’t like the idea of phone companies selling me a mini computer with a phone function built in because all they care about is rinsing their customers for money..
      
      For allah sake, they sell internet by the KB…
    - Guest321
      
      Try harder Apple troll.
    - Whatever
      
      Within the possibilities the thermostat and the microwave have there are NO “artificial” restrictions other than to prevent you from hurting yourself. You actually do have total control over those devices and can remove those restrictions (a screwdriver would be needed).
      
      If an iPad where a microwave it would prevent you to cook chicken because of a powerfull “save the chicken” lobby group.
      
      Its only a matter of time until the first Apple device arrives that refuses to take a picture of a building which has been labeled with a QR code indicating a DRM protected building.
    - nostrafarious
      
      retard
  - meowmix
    
    “If they paid me to take the hardware, I would still say no. That is how much I like someone else deciding what I can and can not do with hardware I own. Yes I know you can jailbreak the previous and current generation, but when they eventually release a version that can’t be broken ? ”
    
    i can only agree with you. and along with that, fuck $ony. they’re just the fucking same.
    - Guest321
      
      Totally agreed. Sony is another company that produces nothing but proprietary DRM’d hardware.
  - Guest321
    
    The point is you shouldn’t have to jailbreak shit to make it work the way you want. A company that tries to control what we do with our hardware which we paid for should be boycotted at all costs. There should be no DRM or locked features on something that you have paid for, period.
    
    Hell they even change the charger detection mechanism everytime a new iphone comes out and its all done to force us to use their accessories. I don’t see Samsung or most other companies doing it. So why the hell would I support Apple? This company needs to die for the good of mankind.
  - krypz
    
    i would take the hardware and the money–sell the prisoned hardware on craigslist to some luzer… hell, why not take good money?
- AppleSucks
  
  as much as i personally hate apple’s philosophies and attitude towards their customers, i have to admit that they make superior handheld products.
  - Guest
    
    Compared to Android, iPhones are the most restricted locked down devices Ive ever come to know.
    - Jón McKoy
      
      Exactly Apple products would be fantastic if they weren’t locked down. Now they are literally Hitler.
  - Anyone
    
    where have you been living the past few years?
    Android has the better hardware and of course the better software, because it doesn’t restrict you
    - Guest
      
      So true, I’d rather use a BlackBerry over an iCrap.
      
      Come at me Apple Fanbois !
  - Popehat
    
    The hardware they make is good quality. Everything else (software, philosophy, DRM) is rubbish..
    
    But don’t forget you have to pay extra for that superior quality…
    
    Mac sell an i7 ibook (wotever its called) for £1700
    Or you can buy a windows laptop same specs for less than £600
    
    Which one?
    - Guest
      
      Apple is like Monster Cable, they charge you thru the nose for what they say is superior when it’s just bells and whistles and nothing much more to offer than average under the hood.
    - Anyone
      
      Apple doesn’t make any hardware, it’s all outsourced
      but their products is way overpriced and the same quality of the competition that sells it for half, because they don’t have mindless fanbois paying any price
  - Guest321
    
    Superior? In what way? They are shiny and polished and look glitzy? Is that what makes them superior? Don’t make me laugh. Features, functionality and hardware wise Android phones are unquestionably superior.
    - Guest
      
      You’re arguing against people who are considered fan bois, this class of people don’t understand that the trash they bought is already obsolete before the purchase has gone through, yet they refuse to accept that cos their heads are so far up steve job’s rear end they see daylight everytime he opens his mouth.
- http://twitter.com/snookasnoo Idon’t Know
  
  Sad little boy….
  - Hogspace
    
    Sad? I was more than a little amused when Jobs croaked, having been too stupid to access proper treatment when he discovered what a radically dangerous cancer he had.
- A Proud iFag
  
  How can you say that
thedude321

I just wish that a real free and open source alternative comes to apple’s dominance. They are really pissing me off.
- Guest
  
  There would be a real free and open-source alternative if the FOSS community could ever manage to get its fucking act together and do real work instead of just sitting around in an ideological circle jerk talking about how awesome they are.
- TheOiulkj
  
  I can’t tell if you’re joking, or have been living under a cave for the last few years. There is a real free and open source alternative to apple. Think about it for a second or two…
- Anyone
  
  Android is free and (mostly) open source
  and they broke the dominance for phones at least, tablets are next
  - Guest321
    
    Kudos to Google yet again.
- Guest
  
  Apple should just go back to what they do best, Apple computers and leave the mobile phone sector alone, it was better off without them anyway.
1hhh1

was costing them hard cash?

They’re the richest,biggest company ever.
- PenzancePeer
  
  Now Jobs has gone to meet Jesus, there’s only one way for Apple, Down !
  
  Good thing too, imagine the end of all those twerps pretending to be niche dwellers with a mass market product :)
  - Anyone
    
    just look at the late 80s/early 90s for a prediction of the future of Apple
    
    they make the same mistakes they made back then, and are yet again without Steve Jobs, but this time they can’t rehire him
    - Guest
      
      I preferred Apple during the early to mid 1990′s they only offered expensive computers, unlike today where it’s iMacs iPods iPads iPhones
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Anonymous

i wouldn’t trust Apple as far as i could throw a pie! they are one of the worst companies ever for ‘borrowing’ other companies and peoples ideas, expecting to do so for free, then charge everyone else under false pretenses when something ‘of theirs’ is borrowed. bunch of 2 faced wankers with the same attitude Jobs had!
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http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch

Well, if an argument against iOS becomes “meh, you can’t have your torrent apps” Apple’s got to decide if they continue censor-trolling or go where the money is that’s currently not flowing into their coffers because customers find arguments against their platform.

Copytrolling as practised by the mafiaa is fine, but at least I believe when all is said and done, in the end, it’s about making money isn’t it? And Apple might be just a bit more focused on making money than copytrolling than their BFFs in the mafiaa headquarters.
- Chuck
  
  Hahahahaha, yes sure the most valuable company in history, with $100 billion in the bank needs the money from the people that don’t want to pay for stuff and instead use BitTorrent.
  
  Sure.
  - http://codeflow.org/ Florian Bösch
    
    You don’t seem to have done your homework.
    
    Apple makes about $18/device with app-store sales: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/07/24/apple-makes-approximately-18-5-per-device-from-app-store-purchases-gives-13-to-devs/
    
    It has a margin of about $180/device http://www.conceivablytech.com/1570/business/apple-maintains-huge-profit-margin-with-iphone-4
    
    Sales margin > App store sales. Selling devices is more important than selling things in the app store. Or to put it in your example, those $100 billion in the bank account, $91 billion come from device sales, $9 billion come from app store sales. Think again my friend.
    - John
      
      Close. Apple is actually lucky to break even from App Store sales. The main reason they block it is because strong protection of thier apps entices developers to make the quality apps you actually would want to pirate.
Fuc

There worm in those Apple. Those scumbag sue people and claiming what’s not theirs. Come on did you guy the first to invent phone or something? You guy did nothing spectacular the only thing spectacular was the price tag of your fucked up product.

Apple = MAFIAA = WHORE
- Bob
  
  Here’s an idea laser brain. Don’t buy one if you don’t like them.
  
  You also seriously need to educate yourself on their lawsuit with Samsung and why they won the case.
  Apple is actually one of the last companies pirates should be bitching about and have been one of the few to actually try to approach the issue without life destroying legal action against users.
  
  They’ve got their issues but there are a lot bigger problems to worry about.
  - Guest321
    
    He never said he bought an Apple product did he? Dumbass.
    
    And you need to educate yourself about Apple lawsuit first. Its shameful that a company would launch a lawsuit against a competing company because they can’t compete against them legitimately. Samsung is steam rolling them and they can do nothing about it, so they go cry to the jury. I mean claiming patents for rectangular shapes and bouncing scrollbar? Seriously? Apple has been copying everyone for ages. Any judge with half a brain would have thrown that case out without a second look.
    
    Well karma has a way of biting you in the ass. I don’t think they can really stop Samsung like this.
  - Anyone
    
    they won the lawsuit because the court was 15km from their HQ
    every member of the jury had to have relatives or at least friends that work for Apple, so the verdict was clear from the get go
No1_2_u

Fuck Apple!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/9006988/Mass-suicide-protest-at-Apple-manufacturer-Foxconn-factory.html
- http://twitter.com/stormstereo stormstereo
  
  Or fuck Acer?
- jayfehr
  
  Yeah, as it turns out those were employees on the Xbox line. I think you may have meant Fuck Microsoft.
  
  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/12/xbox-assembly-workers-threaten-mass-suicide
Nate Watson

I just searched thr App store and neither of these apps are in it. FYI
- RodgerWilco
  
  Yeah they are, Conttrol <— two ts
  http://itunes.apple.com/app/conttrol/id552714331?ls=1&mt=8Couldnt find the transmission app though
Bob

Looks like they’re not available in this country, and that’s not Apple doing that, that’s the developer not clicking the worldwide button.
Bob

No-one is stopping these people from developing web-apps, which can do everything you would want for remote control torrent apps.

They’re just complaining because they can’t get into the store were they can get users to pay money for their apps and were Apple distribues their code for them.
nonaste

F*** Apple!!
JordanKratz

Apple is Big Brother !
Fuck Apple
Kris44dad

If android allows apps in that Apple doesn’t, eventually Apple will jeopardize their lead and they know it. At one time Sony was great with their hardware, not caring about the use it was put to. {Walkman} Once Sony entertainment got in the way, that all ended. Now that Apple has some [potential] competition, the same could happen to them eventually. I think Apple is smarter then Sony by far. (As to their hardware, I opted for an Ultrabook rather then an iPad. Love it…)
- Anyone
  
  Android has a different model
  every app is allowed, until it is found out to be harmful (virus, etc.)
  with Apple every app has to be approved by the censors
  
  so that means Android has much more freedom, but the occasional malware can slip through
  while Apple is more restrictive and wants to control what its users do
  
  furthermore Android has alternative app stores, for example from amazon or you can simply make a manual install, which you can’t with Apple
dewnfoo

I knew Apple would come around sooner or later.

IP-Masking.tk
wanshang341

http://tvguide.ca/home/
wanshang341

http://tvguide.ca/home/
MM

Why would you write this posting now? Transmission RPC got removed from the AppStore 2 days ago!
Guest

Only stupid mindless hippie sheep by Apple products. Overpriced garbage that has had more recalls for their products than any other computer/mobile company.
Karson

So I just bought this app, and attempted to use it. But unfortunately it crashes on the start screen every time.
Strawbear

Hard hitting investigative journalism there.

Well done.
wanshang341

http://www.economist.com/
Just Curious

Not (once again) news Torrent Freak.

Publishing or Posting something just for the sake of doing so does not make it news.

boring·ly adv.
boring·ness n.
Synonyms: boring, monotonous, tedious, irksome, tiresome, humdrum
These adjectives refer to what is so uninteresting as to cause mental weariness. Boring implies feelings of listlessnes
- ScrewEwe2
  
  You really are a douche bag. If you don’t like T.F.’s articles, or can’t stand to read poster’s comments, without bitching about peoples use of English, then pick up a newspaper and complain to the editor. You add nothing of value here troll.
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IPhone

Im posting a comment from my iPhone.
- Guest
  
  What do you want for that comment, a medal?
  But first you would need a chest to pin it on!!
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Ceris893

I personally enjoy my macs and iPad, but I do not bad mouth those who prefer windows or Linux. It is none of my business to tell someone to switch, neither is it someone else’s to tell me.
- Kalham83
  
  Couldn’t agree more I enjoy my apple products but hate it when people get really personal about what phone you have. The fact is not everyone needs there phone on android so they can do what they like. Majority of phone users just enjoy having looking phone which you can download free/cheap apps and the cost of a phone is everyone’s own personal preference.
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Justice

There is no point buying Apple stuffs.

I mean come on! you pay twice or even 3 time the price over the competition’s products for a fucking device that restrict what you can do with it, has serious bugs, let the FBI spy on you, don’t even accept Sd cards and don’t even let you replace the battery!

Oh! Sorry! Forget the last point. I forgot that the Apple’s device will probably break before the battery need to be replaced.
- Joelewart
  
  Where did you get your information? A potato? What serious bugs? How does the FBI spy on you? And how would the Idevice break? I’ve had an iPod since ’09. Now it’s ’12. It still works perfectly. And besides, no one is telling you to buy it. No need to go on rant about them on an AppStore related article. Dumbass.
Marto29

has anybody tried either app?
Turd Burgler

Apple is to restrictive. Although I do have a choice not to buy their products, it makes me angry that other people do not feel the same way I do. I care more about computers than almost anything else. I am smart. I am cool. Is their something wrong with me?
- Yeah
  
  Nope you are absolutely correct. If you are a pro computer user you don’t even need those “dumb-phone” if you know what I mean. You can get everything for free you will just need some brain. You can run android and make free call with computer. Apple app? I don’t give a damn on those.
guest01

Another issue (other than Apple being app control freaks) is the lack of security. After BitDefender’s “Clueful” app was pulled (which showed what personal data apps were using & sometimes even transmitting without your consent). As far as I am aware, you cannot even install a firewall app without jailbreaking your phone. Why does Apple not want you to know what personal data is being sent (often unencrypted) over the internet? My assumption is that they & other 3rd parties are data-mining your personal information & browsing habits.
- Anyone
  
  here is one thing they do with that data: http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/hackers-publish-one-million-and-one-apple-ids-found-on-fbi-computer-1094678
  hand them over to the FBI
No

Apple wants greater flexibility with music licensing, if the labels don’t give it to them, then Apple knows how to turn up the heat.
fawntee

Thats what I like about Apple. Apple is jsut cool liek that.

Anon-Real.tk
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http://lnk.co/I2VI9
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Apple become cooler ?
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Conttrol is not available in the US apple store is the message I get when searching the app.
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Cat

So many messages only telling half the story. I agree it’s stupid and irritating apple try to control our devices. But it’s totally understandable. Apple make “boutique” hardware and software, [ie. THE BEST] and understandably want to protect their profits and all the money they have invested in making something amazing for users [ie. "THEIR HARD F****ING WORK"]. [Have you ever USED apple devices? Man, they're amazing! They "just work"! I could never ever go totally go back to windoze unless apple somehow dies, and Ubuntu needs a lot of work to get anywhere close, although I hope it does some day].

I can run Windows and Ubuntu seemlessly side-by-side with OSX using software called “VMware Fusion”, and flick between them at the flick of a wrist using the touchpad, and use files between them all [needed to install extra drivers, but that's easy]. I rarely use windows or ubuntu, except for the very very few things they are good for / do better than osx, which is almost nothing.

I eagerly await for Open Source devices and software to catch up, but it’s still a while away. Hopefully it speeds up, but in the end, or at least so far, the quality stuff is coming from where the money is going to.

Makes sense right? Nobody is making the amazing s**t for free.

ie. people paying apple, and apple employees being inspired by $$$ to make the best “boutique” computers and software available.
- mynameishare
  
  Do you realize this post is 5 months old? Were you googling something anti Apple so you could complain about it? Your use of the word Windoze certainly won’t help you being taken seriously.
  
  The problem with this closed market system is that they create an alternate reality where tits and torrents don’t exist. It’s censorship and it makes devices less useful, not more useful. If they don’t want “bad” apps, they could change the search in the store, so you don’t find the tits and torrents unless you explicitly search for them.
  
  Most people who program open source are paid to do it, open source can move ahead without breaking your capitalist rules. In marketshare Android is way bigger than iOS and doesn’t need any catching up.

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