Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Developer: Apple suffers from an irrational phobia about torrents

Torrents are ubiquitous, but not on the operating system iOS because rigid rules of anti-piracy policy Apple. Hardly appeared in the App Store, the app to download torrent files Blue Downloader disappeared within hours after the developer has added a search function files.As the creator of the application, Apple is suffering from "irrational fear of BitTorrent».
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Initially, the program started in the App Store with a limited number of torrent resources approved by Apple. Blue Downloader can download files from trackers like Archive.org, Linuxtracker and Bitlove, and with more countries and The Pirate Bay, or download KickassTorrents were banned. In the last update of Harrison added search torrent-files through Google, so the possibilities for downloading from the global network of diverse content become much wider. However, such a scenario Apple will not accept, and in just a few hours torrent client was blocked.
"I saw an empty niche in the App Store and decided to take it - says Harrison, who learned about removing Blue Downloader. - The store never had before application to download torrents. " According to the developer, through the torrent network is downloaded approximately equal number of regular files and illegal content, but in the public mind torrents strongly related to piracy. Apple unfounded fears of the protocol, he said.
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Whatever it was, the developer does not leave attempts to recover Blue Downloader.Harrison hopes that Apple somewhat relaxed its rules, which in the future will lead to the emergence of a torrent client for iOS. "I will try to return the application to the store - said Harrison. - The program has not yet revealed its potential and I am convinced that the iPhone and iPad users are entitled to use torrents. "
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