iPod touch Apple has ISP take down iPod Hacker site

[mac-convert]

I didn't see this posted elsewhere yet, but here it is at TUAW

Yesterday, Erica posted in her state of the iPod touch jailbreak that a hacker named "Martyn" had obtained a broken iPod touch, and was planning to dive in and download every bit of code on it in the increasingly complicated effort to put 3rd party applications on the iPod touch. He didn't plan to release the code to the public, but he did plan to upload the code to a secured area of his site in order to let the other touch hackers have a crack at it.

But even before his upload finished, we're told, his ISP showed up, with a takedown notice in hand. Apple had somehow found his site, had contacted his ISP, and let them know that it would be against copyright law for him to upload that code to the Internet. Martyn isn't interested in breaking the law (and it would be illegal to share that code), so he pulled the page off. But what's amazing here is how fast Apple moved on this-- either they've got someone listening in on the development wiki, or they're taking cues from us on how things are going over there (hi, Apple!).

See the rest of the article at the link above. Apple seems real serious about the iPod touch hacking.

 

[sxc]

Is Apple the new Sony?

"You will do things exactly as we tell you to do them, and you cannot to anything more without paying your toll fare. You will see the world as we see it."

 

[benlee]

I wonder why they are doing this. I'm willing to bet there is a specific reason they don't want these hackers doing it. Other than adding apps to the touch. I just have no idea what it would be.

On a side note, when the thought of apple first releasing an iphone, i thought they would never limit its uses. Now the phone has crippled bluetooth and inablility to write to the drive......the list goes on and on.

I'm not complaining...I'm just curious as to why!

 

[onionperson654]

Hmmmm, maybe they really DO want to keep ipods/iphones safe...


or... probably not. Darn it, we bought the ipod touch so we wouldn't have to get AT&T, let us be!

 

[sblasl]

Good for Apple-!!

 

[xerikx]

Good for Apple-!!

 

[jmpage2]

This is exactly why I didn't go with the iPhone and hope that it would continue to function in a "jailbreak" or "sim unlock" state.

Engadget carried a story a while back in which Apple warned people with sim-unlocked iPhones that future updates/patches might render their iPhone unuseable and that any sim-unlock/jailbreak activity could be grounds for loss of warranty coverage.

 

[James L]

Apple == losers on this issue.

 

[madmaxmedia]

Here's to the crazy ones, who use the applications that we tell them to.



(a funny comment from the TUAW page)

 

[RedDragon870503]

Is this the same Steve Jobs that got his career started as a tinkerer? What gives?

 

[wizzracer]

That story sounds fishie!

He'll MS could not move that fast when there code was released a few years back. I still got a copy of it that I downloaded.

 

[virus1]

That story sounds fishie!

He'll MS could not move that fast when there code was released a few years back. I still got a copy of it that I downloaded.

Maybe apple has an inside man inside the hacking team!

Thats hella shady..

 

[PowerFullMac]

1) Theres a iPod Touch Dev wiki????
2) If Apple chooses to take a Sony view on the hacks or dosent do all these things officially themselves then they will just get pwned! Like Sony.