Oh you would be surprised. There's lots of big communities out there that do this. Big thing with Grateful Dead, Bruce Springsteen, Phish, Dave Matthews Band, etc.
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Torrenting Apps Now Available for iPhone Users in the EU
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If the thing you bought at Best Buy only works using Wal-mart’s intellectual property, then yeah, I’d call you greedy for trying to avoid paying them for that.
In your rush to manufacture outrage you completely misunderstood what the article says, probably by just reading the headline.
It’s about an app for torrenting, not torrenting of apps. EU devs are in no more danger of having their apps stolen than everybody else, and not more so than when the AppStore was the only option.
Apple's intellectual property is installed and running on my hardware. Why do they get 100% of the say while, I, who paid for and owns the hardware, get none?
Seems a little lop-sided to me...
Because Torrent has done so much good for the world. Just ask any musician since the mid 1990s how their revenue streams have gone.
iPhone users in the European Union can now install torrenting apps, bypassing Apple's stringent App Store policies (via The Verge).
The alternative app marketplace AltStore PAL is now offering torrenting apps, a category that has historically been banned by Apple. This follows the introduction of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), which has reduced Apple's control over apps available in the region. As a result, iOS users can now download and use apps that are not available on the App Store without the need to jailbreak their devices.
The new offerings on AltStore PAL include iTorrent, an iOS torrent client, and qBitControl, a remote client for managing qBittorrent on desktop systems. These apps, along with PeopleDrop, a dating-focused social discovery app, and UTM SE, an app for emulating operating systems such as Windows, Linux, and macOS on iOS devices, mark the first batch of third-party apps to be released on AltStore PAL since its launch. Unlike the other apps, UTM SE has also been approved by Apple and is available on the official App Store, though it was initially rejected in June before gaining approval with assistance from the AltStore team.
Apple has consistently banned torrent apps from its App Store, citing that they are "often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights," but the DMA has weakened Apple's ability to maintain its walled garden approach, allowing alternative app marketplaces like AltStore PAL to offer apps that do not meet Apple's guidelines.
Users interested in accessing the new apps on AltStore PAL will need an iPhone running iOS 17.4 or later. The service requires a subscription fee of €1.50 per year to cover Apple's fees. More information about the apps and the subscription process can be found on the AltStore website.
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Because you agreed to the terms of the license when you accepted the EULA.
Different license for using the IP for developing apps. Same way buying a DVD doesn’t give you permission to play that movie in a theater and charge admission.
Hence why I believe EULAs are worth less than soiled toilet paper. They are nothing but one-sided contracts that shouldn't be valid, or even legal.
You really believe Gen Z is out there configuring torrent clients, running VPNs, organizing downloaded files and copying them onto their phones? 🤣
That has a whole lot more to do with legal streaming than anything else, and how the music business has structured it to screw over artists. You can stream practically everything in the world for like $11-12 a month -- or absolutely free if you're willing to hear some ads.
The recording industry loves to trot out the piracy as a distraction from fact that they've created a structure whereby it's virtually impossible for anyone below the very top tier of artists to make a living off recorded music.
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I wonder if, by pure coincidence, a number people in the EU will suddenly stop subscribing to overpriced streaming services soon. 
Nothing to do with torrenting becoming even easier or anything. Just pure coincidence.
Nothing to do with torrenting becoming even easier or anything. Just pure coincidence.
That's good to know.
Sadly your comment and legitimate reasons are going to be totally ignored by the Apple Fans and they will SHOUT LOUDLY that it's only for piracy.
I have one too, but it doesn't work to block calls where caller ID is restricted or blocked.
No, but this is very different because an iPhone and iOS aren't just another computer and an operating system.
.. They are very specifically the computer and operating system that generates the most revenue for Apple and, naturally, have to be locked, blocked and proprietary this and that and everything to force every third party and consumer to always pay Apple a little something, or a lot, no matter what we do on iPhone.
Only the EU could ever manage to loosen Apple's grip on iPhone a little bit.
Alternate app stores won't resolve the issue of someone making you an app that is to your specifications.
Any guesses for how long it takes the EU to start investigating Apple for enabling piracy on its platform?
I said WITHOUT silencing unknown callers. I can't do that on my work phone as I might get 20 calls a day from caller ID numbers I don't know, but I keep getting "blocked caller id" calls that are political or junk calls.
I want an option to SPECIFICALLY block "unknown" caller id or "blocked/restricted caller id". Not send to voicemail, not to silence, BLOCK.
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They’re a bigger thing now than they were back in the day thanks to greedy companies that continue to increase prices for their streaming services.
Appreciate you speaking on most of our behalf. 🤐
You can bet that torrents are still "a thing". We have access to everything through the streaming services, but the market is now so large, and the content is so spread out, that it is now quite an expensive pleasure if you follow a single TV show on a streaming service and just have to follow something on another streaming service - and then a film comes on the third streaming service you just want to watch. Subscription services have taken over. I'm not saying that makes it legit, but that's one of the reasons it's still a thing.