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Apple Censoring 'Jailbreak' in U.S. iTunes Store Listings [Update: Fixed]

wolfshades said:
Is Apple really that ignorant about the world-at-large (read: the internets) and their ability and hungry penchant to bypass censoring devices?

Are they really that backward? Do they not realize that the moment you attempt to censor anything - that just brings it more attention than it otherwise would have received?

Man this is sad. I expect better from the world's most promising tech company.
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Just ask any artist. Wanna get free promo for your song/film/book/etc? Just make sure you offend the Catholic Church. They'll do all the publicity for you.
 
macUser2007 said:
That's just one more reason to stay away from the iTunes.

As they say, all power corrupts, and Apple has become worse than Microsoft ever was. Can you even imagine the howls had MS had done something like this a few years ago?
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Had microsoft ever become the largest distributor of online media I'd guess they would have censor filters in place.

Too bad that Zune stuff never took off.
 
QUOTE: Other words Apple may censor in the near future:

G****e (Google)
A*****d (Android)
L*****t (Lawsuit)
H********h (Hackintosh)

Any other words that may come to your mind?

P*o (Pro)
 
Apple's walled garden is going to implode from the inside if they keep acting like paranoid little trolls who scared to death that somebody is going to out innovate them and steal their wealth.
 
Wow must be a slow news day for MR. Guess they ran out of iPhone rumors to rehash. :rolleyes:
 
Peace said:
I might also add. Something this story failed to do.

Jailbreaking is one of the most common ways to pirate free media from the iTunes store.
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What? You can't pirate media from iTMS by jailbreaking.

All jailbreaking does is give you freedom and control over your device. Some people will use it to install programs that allow them to easily find and locate pirated copies of iOS apps, sure.

Most people just want to change their themes, or have better control over their phone using conveniences offered by SBSettings and Lockinfo. Or perhaps they are developers who desire to dig into their phone without going through ordained channels. Or perhaps they want to use an app that Apple blocked from the App store because it competes with (ahem, replicates functionality of) one of their apps. Or perhaps they need the ability to tether in occasional circumstances and used to be able to with a prior phone, but without JB would have to pony up quite a bit more money per month to the carrier to be able to do so.

There are a lot of talented developers working the JB ecosystem, and they want to get paid for their efforts too. Piracy is frowned upon as much in the JB arena as outside of it. I feel the JB crowd has a more nuanced understanding of the social aspect: is stamping out piracy (a minority userbase, and generally not very good customers anyway) worth the cost of giving up freedom?
 
KNIGHTS OF NI: [greatly pained] Aaaaugh! Aaaugh!
HEAD KNIGHT: Don’t say that word!
ARTHUR: What word?
HEAD KNIGHT: I cannot tell. Suffice it to say is one of the words the Knights of Ni cannot hear.

;)
 
Peace said:
I might also add. Something this story failed to do.

Jailbreaking is one of the most common ways to pirate free media from the iTunes store.
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True. My step-daughter had a 2nd or 3rd Gen iPod Touch that was jailbroken. She had unlimited access to the iTunes and App stores for free. She could download anything she wanted without an iTunes account (or at least it was some kind of dummy account) or paying a cent.
 
damacus said:
What? You can't pirate media from iTMS by jailbreaking.

All jailbreaking does is give you freedom and control over your device. Some people will use it to install programs that allow them to easily find and locate pirated copies of iOS apps, sure.

Most people just want to change their themes, or have better control over their phone using conveniences offered by SBSettings and Lockinfo. Or perhaps they are developers who desire to dig into their phone without going through ordained channels. Or perhaps they want to use an app that Apple blocked from the App store because it competes with (ahem, replicates functionality of) one of their apps. Or perhaps they need the ability to tether in occasional circumstances and used to be able to with a prior phone, but without JB would have to pony up quite a bit more money per month to the carrier to be able to do so.

There are a lot of talented developers working the JB ecosystem, and they want to get paid for their efforts too. Piracy is frowned upon as much in the JB arena as outside of it. I feel the JB crowd has a more nuanced understanding of the social aspect: is stamping out piracy (a minority userbase, and generally not very good customers anyway) worth the cost of giving up freedom?
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I'm sure there are different ways to jailbreak and some do result in unfettered and unpaid access to iTunes, etc. See my comment above.

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GREEN4U said:
That's not what her gardener said.
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Ok, that was totally offside, too.
 
Can someone please correct the "update" on Macrumors so that it doesn't say that the censoring was "inadvertent"? Somebody at Apple obviously told the iTunes store to start censoring the work "jailbreak", unless we think Apple's servers have become sentient and decided on their own to start censoring the word... :rolleyes:

Apple may have reversed their decision to do so, or maybe someone higher-ranked at Apple overturned the decision to do so, but finding a specific word and replacing it by asterisks didn't just accidentally happen.
 
autrefois said:
Can someone please correct the "update" on Macrumors so that it doesn't say that the censoring was "inadvertent"? Somebody at Apple obviously told the iTunes store to start censoring the work "jailbreak", unless we think Apple's servers have become sentient and decided on their own to start censoring the word... :rolleyes:

Apple may have reversed their decision to do so, or maybe someone higher-ranked at Apple overturned the decision to do so, but finding a specific word and replacing it by asterisks didn't just accidentally happen.
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Or somebody was tasked with removing reviews that promoted piracy through jailbreaking and messed up. There are plenty of explanations that would fall under "inadvertent".

The idea that the purposely filtered song title containing the word "jailbreak" is silly.
 
MacRumors said:
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Exploring an observation initially made by iOS hacker @planetbeing, Shoutpedia notes that Apple has mysteriously begun censoring the word "jailbreak" in the U.S. iTunes Store. While not all mentions of the word are affected, the vast majority of them across all content types are currently being censored to "j*******k".

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Apple has long objected to the jailbreaking process, which opens up iOS devices for installation of apps from non-Apple approved sources and other system tweaks. But it is unclear what the company is trying to achieve with its iTunes Store censoring, which affects such content as Thin Lizzy's song and album of that name and an episode of the The Roy Rogers Show from the early 1950s.

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The censoring appears to only affect the U.S. iTunes Store at the present time, but it has been in effect for over eight hours now.

Update: The censoring appears to be inadvertent. Searches for 'jailbreak' on the Apple Store now return results without any asterisks.

Article Link: Apple Censoring 'Jailbreak' in U.S. iTunes Store Listings [Update: Fixed]
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Not suprised at all. All should know by now that Apple knows what is best for their customers and not the customers themselves. hmm
 
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