Apple cracks down on pirate site Apptrackr
The mothership has gotten heat from developers and pundits over its apparent inaction vis-a-vis app piracy, a problem observers say has only gotten worse in recent months. Although criticism of Apple is unlikely to subside, the biggest iOS pirate site has been pushed off shore and the problem has moved to countries ‘that do not have copyright laws.’
iJailbreak, a blog that wears its sympathies on a “borrowed” sleeve, reports that Apptrackr, the most popular iOS app piracy site, has acknowledged Apple efforts to serve link takedown notices.
Over the last several months, Apple has been scraping apptrackr for links and sending huge takedown notices for a ton of content. We’ve been working to keep apptrackr up-to-date, but the only (effective) way to prevent automated takedowns was to add a CAPTCHA to outbound links.
No contrition, no acknowledgement of complicity, just what they’re doing to block Apple’s efforts to make them to stop pirating apps. Wow.
Further thereto, Apptrackr has moved servers to countries that do not have copyright laws, which they say costs more money than they’re getting in donations.
So, Apptrackr says they need to place advertising to cover the cost. Gosh, sounds like a business model to me…
What’s your take?
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