iPhone Pirating App Attacks Rival Pirate App Store
Written by enigmax on March 30, 2009A new application has been created for the iPhone which is designed to not only get all the latest Apple apps free of charge, but to teach a commercial iPhone pirate a lesson by opening his servers to all.
Many users of jailbroken iPhones will be familiar with the Installous application. Installous, from the people at Hackulo.us, allows the simple installation of apps previously available from the official Apple App Store – but free of charge with Appulous, of course.
This system hasn’t had much serious competition but all that changed recently when a new service/app appeared. Known as ‘Mega’, this application/system currently offers direct downloads of a staggering number of App Store apps, over 4000 at last count – a full list is available here.
However, while Installous operates on a donation basis and doesn’t host any copyright infringing content itself, Mega offers its services via paid subscription – $9.99 for 1 month, $23.99 for 3 months and $41.99 for 6 months – which at least in part probably reflects the large costs associated with Mega hosting the content themselves.
It’s also alleged that Mega ‘borrowed’ some code previously developed for Installous and this along with the ‘pay for warez’ issue seemed to really motivate the Installous crew, and they set about ruining this money maker.
“If you’re forced to spend money to use a service, you should be spending it on the actual apps you get, not making some greedy pirate rich,” said coder Kyek. And with this Kyek created a new application known as ‘Grabulous’. Once downloaded from the Hackulo.us repo on Cydia, this software allows iPhone users to instantly download any of the 4000+ apps from Mega’s servers – free of charge. Grabulous was a command line app, but a GUI is now available.
The stated aim of Grabulous is to give iPhone users the Mega service for free, or alternatively crash the Mega servers through being overloaded by non-paying users. “Both options are cool with us,” says Kyek.
TorrentFreak spoke with Murda, founder of iPhone hack site FSMdotCOM who explained he had no time for Mega. “Grabulous should be saluted and applauded by consumers AND devs. This is common sense, it’s not cracking , it’s not hacking. Paying for cracked apps is a crime against common sense.”
“To be honest I think Mega tried it and thought they could outsmart everyone. But unfortunately (for them) the iphone/touch community proves itself to be a fantastic one once again,” Murda told TorrentFreak. “Mega had a major ‘uppercut’ from Hackulous when they released Grabulous but everybody smelled the fish right away, and we are not shy to send a message out to the people, and warn them. That is why we are here.”
Of course, the release of Grabulous didn’t go unnoticed by the people over at Mega and this ignited a round of technical cat and mouse as Mega tried to block Grabulous, with at least some initial success. Kyek promised a new version of Grabulous to get around these measures but at this point in time it looks as if Mega has taken the hint that charging subscriptions for access to warez is unacceptable to some.
In a statement, Mega has advised that they will no longer require monthly subscriptions but will instead ask for donations while supporting this revenue stream with advertising. Due to this new system, users will be limited on the number of apps they can download each day, dependent on server load.
“They should have done this since the very beginning,” noted Murda.
The Appulo.us service itself has been down for a week after they outgrew their hardware – and their budget. On the first day of taking donations Appulo.us received $1700 but said they wouldn’t return until they had received enough money to rent 3 servers (up from 1) for 6 months. The service is back in operation today.
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Wow! Thanks for notifying me about this TF! Great program!
This is great, paying for pirated apps would be stupidity. Go Hackulo.us
Open-Source only App Store FTW!
yeah paying for cracked apps has never made sense..
if its not yours, you cant sell it, you can however share it. Copyright exists for only one reason to me, and that is so assholes cant make money off your hard work.
and yes that means no selling burned DVD’s or programs you f*cks..
COOL BEANS.
appulo.us is back.
Non-commercial piracy is the best way to destroy commercial piracy, after all.
Although I don’t support piracy, I can’t help but applaud the actions of Appulous. Way to go, mates.
good go guys
LOL, can’t we all jsut get along! ROTFL
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So, stealing applications and asking for donations to make money off of other people’s hard work is okay, but hosting stolen programs, and then selling access is suddenly when the line is crossed? Is your feeling of entitlement so great that theft is considered okay as long as no one, other than you, is making money off the transaction?
I guess it would be okay with you if your employer started not paying you for your work because they want stuff, but don’t want to have to pay for it. If that’s the case, then I’m hiring.
The TEN COMMANDMENTS say stealing is a SIN.
Copyright violation – that is FILESHARING – is STEALING.
Therefore FILESHARING is a SIN.
SINNERS go to HELL.
Commercial pirates go to HELL.
SAVE YOURSELVES before the END OF DAYS is here.
Stop STEALING files from P2P, it is STEALING and GOD will PUNISH you by sending you to HELL.
SAVE YOURSELVES before it is TOO LATE.
Amen, in the name of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
Wow this is a great app! Ive had my phone jailbroken for months now and didn’t even know this existed! Thanks!
Sheesh, lemme get this straight: Crapulous steals from the AppStore and is lauded as a hero, when all they really are are freetards.
Then, some OTHER Haxor script kiddy punks them, and they punk back.
*yawn* I’m sorry, dueling freetards, like BSG are as booooring as hell.
This is about as retarded as RipDev trying to ‘make a comeback’ with their so-called ‘new’ Installer.crap.
Why the fuck would anybody pay a subscription fee to download cracked iPhone apps in the first place?
They’re already cheap. Unless you’re an impulse buyer or have problems seperating the cream from the crap, then your app store budget would probably work out to around $41.99 every six months, anyway. There’s only a very finite number of good programs.
And if you’ve already jailbroken your iPhone, then chances are high that you already know how to put warez on it.
So how did anybody withink Mega was a good idea? Jesus.
i think some ppl just dont see it in the way other ppl do. they got mad cause some guy was making money of piracy so maybe he can buy something for himself, but if the person would have been upfront and just asked for donations for server cost only then it would be ok at least in my opinion.
I get my iPhone at the end of the month. :D
Don’t own an iPhone…
(and probably never will: I just got my new HTC Touch HD which frankly pisses all over the iPhone. You can’t beat 480×800 res, particuarly for movies & games …and Windows Mobile has a very capable iPhone emulator now and I have over 21,000 WM apps/games in my collection already).
So many other reasons to not get a iPhone: HTC Touch is more powerful yet cheaper (typical Apple product), WM is far more tweakable & powerful due to apps available
…but it’s certainly a nice phone.
…so this is generally great news for iPhone owners and great news for me to get iPhone games.
I don’t really care about the guy trying to charge people per month – some people will pay it, others will not, I never would because I can generally find most things I want. Laughable that people get self-righteous about the “principle” of charging, who cares, some people are just too unskilled or lazy to work out how to find things by other means.
Like as if anybody can’t, at a minimum, type [app name] + rapidshare into google right?
~Avenging_Angel~, you are a tosser, you’ll go to hell for being here, LOL.
~Avenging_Angel~ might be right. I bought one of those candles in the glass jar the other day for kicks and when I tried blowing it out the tip practically exploded shooting sparks all over, burning me, and relighting. Jesus knows I pirate and he doesn’t like it.
Well! This is really a great news. So many cracked apps coming. Good news for students to try out new stuff!
A new application has been created for the iPhone which is designed to not only get all the latest Apple apps free of charge, but to teach a commercial
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I can understand pirating movies to an extent. And downloading music can have it’s up side. but this.. taking money from, mostly independent developers, who in the first place aren’t charging all that much for their work, who in all fairness are struggling to turn a profit due to the price war going off on the app store. That’s just low. really low.
I’m an iPhone developer. How the f*ck do you expect me to pay my bills? Seriously, I’m really struggling right now. I’m not a corporation. I don’t have backers. My day job has gone to shit in this crisis. I just feel really shit now. really fucking shit. Tearful because I don’t know how I’m paying my rent next month. There’s real people at the other end of this equation. I’m betting my last chip on my iPhone app but I see crap like this, I see people applauding ripping off independents and I just want to give up.
What’s the point. No one cares.
Hey Angel, I think coming over to websites and being a troll is sinful also. In any case the people stealing are the MPAA/RIAA losers.
that is really good news thanx
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Christopher: “I guess it would be okay with you if your employer started not paying you for your work because they want stuff, but don’t want to have to pay for it. If that’s the case, then I’m hiring.”
If I no longer have to pay for any product or service I want, and no one else has to pay for any product or service they want, I will be happy to work free of pay.
“~Avenging_Angel~ might be right. I bought one of those candles in the glass jar the other day for kicks and when I tried blowing it out the tip practically exploded shooting sparks all over, burning me, and relighting. Jesus knows I pirate and he doesn’t like it.”
Or you exhale lighter fluid. I mean, GOD DAMN.
@8Bit: Nice reasoning. Now if we only lived in la la land we’d all be happy.
@Jimmy
What the hell does the MPAA and RIAA have to do with pirating apps for the iPhone / iPod touch?
Justify stealing any way you like, it’s still stealing. I don’t necessarily agree with Angel in that you’ll go to hell, but I believe you’ll get what’s coming to you some day! Till then, best of luck!
U can’t pay for iPhone apps but u will buy RS prem acc – ironic isn’t it ?
RS is like MEGA – I don’t see any difference. Someone crack the soft/rip the movie then upload it to RS but downloader in most cases need to pay (eventually not pay if it’s enough calm being;)
It’s unbelievable how some people actually try to PROFIT off the original authors.
They have totally deviated from the original intentions of sites, such as http://ipastuff.com, which aim to provide a demo for users to avoid them being scammed.
@IPAStuff
People like you are the cancer of our scene. You, mega, TMB and countless others who don’t give credit to people who have cracked the apps and who are the reason we have anything. Go find a hole and never come back.
@NubCakes/-Avenging_ANgel-/Christopher/Red Guy
“So, stealing applications ….
The TEN COMMANDMENTS say stealing is a SIN ….
Sheesh, lemme get this straight: Crapulous steals from the AppStore …”
Oh, if only filesharing was stealing.
But unfortunately, the reality that copying something and thieving something are two very different things gets in the way of your little fib.
I.e, to steal is to take Thing A away from Person A and gives it to Person B. To fileshare is to duplicate Thing A so that now there’s two of them, hence Person B can have Thing A without taking it away from Person A.
BTW, bonus points for trying to make your NubCakes screen name look legit by making up another screen name called -Avenging_Angel- just so you could have NubCakes call them a tosser. That’s definitely a step up from having your multiple screen names oh so mysteriously be the only ones to ever agree with eachother. Minus points, however, for making it cringingly obvious that you’re also Christopher and Red Guy. Pro tip: the only person who has ever ranted about “freetards” and “thieves with feelings of entitlement” on Torrent Freak is you. If you don’t want to make it completely transparent that somebody is yet another one of your multiple pseudonyms(which you actually admitted to having, in an incredibly stupid move), then don’t have them use your trademarked catchphrases that are unique to no other commentator on this site but you.
It’s pretty funny how you have to indirectly stick up for Apple and call downloading cracked iPhone apps stealing even though you really like the HTC Touch HD better, though :D
Job related conflicts of interest, eh?
I think your concept of stealing needs some serious work. Taking my work, without paying for it, is stealing from me.
end. of. story.
I write the apps that you thieves are bickering about.
Someone else asking for donations for my work still amounts to someone else getting paid for my work.
As far as I’m concerned Grabulous and Mega are one and the same.
…and you’re all biting the hand that feeds. Keep looting from us and someday you might have to start feeding yourselves.
@Gargantuan
“I think your concept of stealing needs some serious work. Taking my work, without paying for it, is stealing from me.”
I think you need to look up ’stealing’ in a dictionary, because it obviously doesn’t mean what you think it means.
To steal your work, I’d have to take it from you. But filesharing doesn’t involve taking. It involves copying, which severly fails as theft, because you still have your work after I’ve downloaded it. Something can’t have been taken away from you if you still infact have it.
@awolf
“…and you’re all biting the hand that feeds. Keep looting from us and someday you might have to start feeding yourselves.”
Oh no!! You mean that someday, passionless cynicists like you who only write apps for money might leave the software business!?
But then where would we get all our mediocre, uninspired programs from!?
You’ve apperently never heard of freeware or the open source movement. We’ve been feeding ourselves since long before the iPhone ever existed, and we’ll be feeding ourselves long after its demise.
You are all shameless little pickpockets. Shame on all of you. Your grandmothers would be ashamed of you
@Anonymous (daring name choice)
Apparently you don’t understand that freeware and open source software does NOT mean copying and redistributing copywritten applications.
Developers have the option to distribute applications as freeware, and according to open source policies, but they are not obligated to do so. To copy a an application and distribute it for free is stealing (despite your simplistic attempt to argue otherwise).
The developer who posted their app on the App Store only granted a license to the purchaser, and in no way granted a license to allow redistribution of the application at random. They have not identified the app as Freeware.
NSBundle *bundle = [NSBundle mainBundle];
NSDictionary *info = [bundle infoDictionary];
if ([info objectForKey: @"SignerIdentity"] != nil)
{
/* quit app here */
}
So simple.
@Anonymous
There is a little message beneath the comment form saying “Please watch your language.” Therefore it is with great deliberation that I say you are the biggest asshole I have ever seen. If that offends you, then I can offer some advice. Don’t be such an asshole.
I can see that this is a lost cause, but I will still try to respond to your claims that open source will work if proprietary disappears. Open source games are practically non-existent. Same goes for usability, although you probably haven’t heard of that. Linux is a geek toy; the only Linux users who aren’t geeks needed a geek to set it up. There’s nothing wrong with geeks, except that most people aren’t geeks. And the thing about a weak minority is that it eventually dies out. You may be able to feed yourself for now, but in a world without proprietary software, the chance of software developers continuing to exist outside of tiny minorities is infinitesimally small. And as a result, television will suffer. (That news bulletin? Final Cut Pro.) Paper will suffer. (Every commercial print in the last half decade or so? Adobe InDesign.) Even domestic appliances will suffer. (Guess who wrote the software that runs your toaster? Or washing machine? Or oven?) And you’ll have to walk everywhere because there’s software in all forms of transport these days. Money has existed for thousands and thousands of years. No movement is gonna make trade without money go mainstream. None.
And your assertion that proprietary apps are uninspired? I’m open to any suggestions of an “inspired” open source app. (And not one that started out proprietary. Then the inspiration isn’t open source, is it?) But please don’t be such an asshole as you have been so far.
“Oh no!! You mean that someday, passionless cynicists like you who only write apps for money might leave the software business!?”
No, but those of us with passion and commitment, but who are also old enough to have bills to pay — such as rent because we don’t live in our parents basements — might leave the software business.
“But then where would we get all our mediocre, uninspired programs from!?”
Mega, apparently.
“You’ve apperently never heard of freeware or the open source movement. We’ve been feeding ourselves since long before the iPhone ever existed, and we’ll be feeding ourselves long after its demise.”
Great! So… you don’t need to be here, right? You were just leaving? I mean, freeware and open-source software provide all your awesome software needs, so you don’t need to rip off commercial software, right? So all that warez you downloaded was just some crazy accident, there you were, typing http://www.fsf.org into your browser and your fingers slipped and torrentfreak.com came out instead?
Me, I have nothing against freeware and open source software; in fact I’ve given away my fair share of both over the years. But if I did that with *everything*, then I would be broke, and then I wouldn’t be able to write more software, and that wouldn’t be good for anyone.
I think I should clarify that I don’t agree with my name, it’s just a lyric that’s been stuck in my head since I heard it on Saturday. I also just realised that my argument is so badly written that it doesn’t hold up for more than half an hour of Internet-standard scrutiny, so please ignore it to avoid wasting anyone’s time and listen to splan’s more coherent comment.
And sorry to spam, but please still read my comment. Just don’t examine it or respond, because I already know it’s weaknesses in phrasing.
@Anonymous
“Oh no!! You mean that someday, passionless cynicists like you who only write apps for money might leave the software business!?”
Two thirds of my apps are free on the App Store.
“You’ve apperently never heard of freeware or the open source movement.”
I have contributed greatly to multiple open source projects. But how is that relevant?
What are you even talking about? Are you saying that because open source software exists in the world people are entitled to copy paid software at their discretion? Is it another person’s choice if my software is “open source” or not?
A man is entitled to charge for something he creates. And another man is entitled to steal from him. But don’t act like that second man is some sort of liberator in the “open source movement”- he’s just a parasite.
“To steal your work, I’d have to take it from you. But filesharing doesn’t involve taking. It involves copying, which severly fails as theft, because you still have your work after I’ve downloaded it.”
What about the money that would result from my work? I’m no longer in possession of that money. It seems like it has been “taken” away.
“HTC Touch is more powerful yet cheaper (typical Apple product)”
Typical anti-Apple FUD. iPhone starts at $200.
Look, while everyone knows piracy goes on and has to accept it as a fact of life, it’s very disappointing that talented developers put the effort into MAKING IT EASY for newbs to do.
Back when you had to actually put some effort into hacking your iPhone to accept cracked apps, and seek out pirated apps from non-obvious locations, the activity was kept underground and relatively unharmful to the revenue of small developers.
But making a GUI app that any idiot can run, that makes downloading pirated apps easier than buying from the real store, is causing serious damage to independent developers.
Some of these devs have barely covered the cost of their iPhone + subscription + hours not working at their day job.
Pirates: with great power, comes great responsibility. Making GUI apps for the newbs is not wielding that power responsibly.
what a bunch of time-wasting muppets
I wish viruses on all of you. And you’ll get them.
The truth is that the app store provides the promise of cheap apps and small developers developing them for YOU not the company you work for (if it is a big one.)
But, like Gordon Gekko, you want to wreck it because it is wreckable.
And someday when international virus-writing conspirators use you to conduct their crimes, you’ll think they’re evil.
But I’m guessing you people who all expect software developers to be your digital slaves–you expect to be paid for your work.
Dumbass Mactards and fashion fags buy the crippled p.o.s. iPhone.
To the developers here — some of us pay for our apps, all of them. If we can’t afford it, we don’t buy them. Some of us realise that ‘everything for free’ means ‘everything of yours for free’. They hide behind the fact that the word ’stealing’ was not invented for this purpose and don’t bother to read the more subtle definition that says ‘depriving the owner of the benefits of something’. And it doesn’t matter what you say because they are so convinced they are entitled to stuff that they’re not going to listen.
I never saw a pirate giving away what they do for nothing and they live with their head in an uncomfortable and odorous place between their legs. But don’t let them get to you. Their sense of entitlement will wear those around them down. Keep writing the apps while you can afford to, if not, then thanks for trying.
Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
Why don’t you spend the time and effort you put into pirating someone else’s software into CREATING something yourself?
@EasyFixForYouAll:
1. fire up IDA
2. search for SignerIdentity (or NSBundle)
3. get offset of CMP. load binary in HexEditor
4. change opcode
5.sign executable
so easy :D
Appulo.us is TONS better than Mega4i.
At least they aren’t taking any profit for other people’s work. Mega4i bunch of copyright stealing bastards.
@John S
“Apparently you don’t understand that freeware and open source software does NOT mean copying and redistributing copywritten applications.”
Ahahah, no.
Awolf was trying to make a threat that if people continue to download cracked iPhone apps, then developers will stop making software for it and we’ll be forced to write our own.
Which is no threat at all, given the existence of freeware and the open source community. We’re already used to writing our own software, so that bogeyman isn’t going to work.
Apparently you need to work on your reading comprehension.
@”Let’s see how long I can make my name / before Torrent Freak explodes”
“I can see that this is a lost cause, but I will still try to respond to your claims that open source will work if proprietary disappears.”
Hmm…
You know, it might be really tough for me to defend my claims that open source will work if proprietary dissapears. Since I didn’t make any.
They’re the products of your imagination, so you deal with them. Leave me out of it. :(
@”Let’s see how long I can make my name / before Torrent Freak explodes”
“And your assertion that proprietary apps are uninspired?”
Is also imaginary.
Tell me, is there something in the water today? Have you and John S been smoking from the same crackpipe?
@splan
“No, but those of us with passion and commitment, but who are also old enough to have bills to pay — such as rent because we don’t live in our parents basements — might leave the software business.”
So unlike those passionless cynicists who are only in the software business to turn a buck, your passion and commitment to writing apps is so great that you’d consider leaving the software business if you failed to turn a buck?
God damn.
Some of the most inept comments I’ve ever read, all in a row. I thought I woke up today, but this must be some kind of bad dream. Or a joke. Hey, am I on Canded Camera?
@splan
““But then where would we get all our mediocre, uninspired programs from!?”
Mega, apparently.”
You’re calling commercial iPhone apps mediocre and uninspired? That’s what Mega deals in, so yes, you definitely are calling them mediocre and uninspired.
I’m guessing that was unintended?
Well, then let this be a lesson for all the kids out there. Literacy is important. Learn to read, or you’ll just end up like splan here.
@splan
“Great! So… you don’t need to be here, right? You were just leaving? I mean, freeware and open-source software provide all your awesome software needs, so you don’t need to rip off commercial software, right”
Hey… Come here. Closer. I want to tell you a secret.
Are you listening? Good. Bit Torrent is for more than just downloading software! I know, I was shocked at first, too. But you can download music, and TV shows, and movies! Hell, you can even download whole books!
Yeah, it’s amazing. But don’t tell anybody this closely gaurded secret. I don’t want it getting out.
@”Let’s see how long I can make my name / before Torrent Freak explodes”
“I also just realised that my argument is so badly written that it doesn’t hold up for more than half an hour of Internet-standard scrutiny, so please ignore it to avoid wasting anyone’s time and listen to splan’s more coherent comment.”
Aww, come on, don’t beat yourself up. Splan’s comment doesn’t stand up to scrutiny either :D
@awolf
“Two thirds of my apps are free on the App Store”
So what are your apps?
Usually, this is where who ever is claiming “you filesharers rip off my stuff!!” comes back with a weak excuse refusing to name their work.
@awolf
“What are you even talking about? Are you saying that because open source software exists in the world people are entitled to copy paid software at their discretion? Is it another person’s choice if my software is “open source” or not?”
Because freeware and open source software exists in the world, your little threat that commercial iPhone app writers might pack up their toys and go home in a tizzy and we’d all have to write our own software from now on is absolutely laughable. You said that someday we might end up having to “feed” ourselves, but we’ve already been “feeding” ourselves for ages. I was very clear the first time I said this. And I was clear the second time at the top of this comment. But I’ll say it yet a third, because you seem to have trouble understanding it.
@awolf
“What about the money that would result from my work? I’m no longer in possession of that money. It seems like it has been “taken” away.”
You were never in possession of that money. I didn’t magically give you $1.99 and then make it leap out of your pocket the moment I decided to download a cracked version of your app. You can’t have something taken away from you when you never possessed it in the first place.
If you want to call it stealing because I’m using your work without having paid you for it, then doing something like buying a second hand Metallica CD from the used bin at a music shop is stealing, too, because you’d be listening to it without having paid Metallica.
@afraid but hopeful
“I wish viruses on all of you. And you’ll get them.”
Sorry, don’t use Windows anymore(I’m freeeeeee!!).
@afraid but hopeful
“The truth is that the app store provides the promise of cheap apps and small developers developing them for YOU not the company you work for (if it is a big one.)”
The problem with the App Store is that Apple doesn’t offer any kind of try-before-you-buy feature(like they do with previewing music in the iTunes store), and it’s too easy for people to game the search engine. Those are two of the biggest reasons why any scene at all exists around cracking such cheap apps.
@ophiochos
“They hide behind the fact that the word ’stealing’ was not invented for this purpose and don’t bother to read the more subtle definition that says ‘depriving the owner of the benefits of something’. ”
Yes. The more subtle, lunatic definition of stealing that says it’s theft every time you share some Oreos with somebody and they fail to pay Nabisco.
You’re of sound mind, clearly.
And you’re right. We are hiding behind the fact that the word ’stealing’ wasn’t invented for the purpose of referring to filesharing. Just like the word ‘cat’ wasn’t invented to refer to dogs.
Such insight!
To all the weasels here who think that stealing other peoples apps, music, movies, or whatever is ok under some sort of idiotic rationalization…
I just hope I have the luck to meet you in line someday (assuming that is that you even leave your parents house or move your fat ass more than the 4 feet from the TV to the fridge) so I can drag you out into the parking lot and beat you senseless… oh wait, too late for that.. ok just a good ass kicking… and guess what .. no charge
Thats all… can’t wait
The funny thing is Appulo.US is now hacked back and some of their posted apps have a name replacing their app version. The other reason appulo.us hacked that other dirt bags site is because they where crying about their own servers being down at the time. They both steal apps so how are they going to act like internet police? WEAK! I guess they are getting what they deserve right back, right now. HA! Let the app nerd wars begin.
“So unlike those passionless cynicists who are only in the software business to turn a buck, your passion and commitment to writing apps is so great that you’d consider leaving the software business if you failed to turn a buck?
God damn.”
Of course. Because passion and commitment don’t stop the landlord kicking you out if you don’t pay the rent. Perhaps you’re a spoilt, rich brat who has Daddy pay for all of that, but for the rest of us it’s kinda hard to develop software if you’re living on the streets. Those of us who do real work for a living, as opposed to anonymously trolling piracy forums, actually need to pay bills and rent.
“So what are your apps?
Usually, this is where who ever is claiming “you filesharers rip off my stuff!!” comes back with a weak excuse refusing to name their work.”
… said anonymous, proving that irony is not dead.
“MP3s are just a clever way of stealing people’s songs / which is why the record industry’s collapsed.”
I disagree here.The record industry collapsed because:
1)thier antiquated business model
is no longer viable. 2)99% of everything they put out is shit and then they try and cram even more of it down your throat as a whole album at outrageously high prices.
3.) Thier NEGATIVE PR really destroyed them here.A business that alienates it own customers usually fails. 4.)They forcefeed us what THEY think should be popular culture. Many successful indy labels GIVE music away and still succeed. 5.)With the cost of living and college expenses,thier main target audience simply doesnt have the money these days.Plain and simple. I could go on but I wont.
I close with this: An mp3 is nothing more than a sample just like tapes and radio was in the old days. why a sample? If you know how mp3 compression works,your question has been answered. A Simple spectral analysis of the waveform proves this out.
As for the iPhone,meh.No comment.It will be dead and gone in 5 years or less.
“As for the iPhone,meh.No comment.It will be dead and gone in 5 years or less.”
lol, tard.
I am a little concerned about this. This obviously mean it is going to affect the Application Developers who want to sell their Apps. How many developers who want to sell their Apps will be spending sleepless nights developing quality apps if they be taken and downloaded for Free? This worrying as it will only affect the Application market. If you want a free App come over to http://www.WhichWebsite.com and I will give you a PROMO CODE FREE!
It’s hilarious to read all the losers who steal justify what they do. Not paying Nabisco? Man, of all the lame arguments for stealing, that takes the, er, cake.
If you want to live in a socialist paradise where you don’t have to pay for things because people do their work out of the goodness of their hearts – and not because a mortgage and food and tuition for the kids costs real money – then you have no idea how you are undermining your own freaking future.
Losers.
@wtf yeah, i don’t agree either. it’s just been stuck in my brain all week.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00j8f4b/The_Now_Show_Series_26_Episode_4/
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