And I pay $99 a year to licence it.
But Apples cut from another store or the open web should be 0%
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Torrenting Apps Now Available for iPhone Users in the EU
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But Apples cut from another store or the open web should be 0%
My European friends have informed me they are currently downloading thirty gigabytes of Linux ISOs and Big Buck Bunny MKVs.
With the basket case that is streaming services these days. Unsurprisingly the high seas are making a comeback
I wonder if I can get over there by spoofing with a vpn. I'd rather use the otherwise useless iPad Pro that darkens my desk to seed my torrents instead of leaving my big power-hungry Mac on all the time just to do it. I've continuously seeded some of these things since 2008. They don't get a ton of traffic, but the traffic they do get is important to researchers & historians, so its worth the effort.
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OK, torrenting on an (i)Phone...?! I never even thought its a 'thing'. I mean without desktop what is the purpose?
Torrenting movies or music is legal in some countries, usually as an accidental side effect of blanket fees on empty storage devices (originally on cassettes, CDs, now even levied on phone storage) introduced decades ago to compensate for and decriminalize copying at home for private use. These fee is included in everything from flash drives, sd cards to phones and notebooks.
But that’s not true at all.
Not only can’t we access the vast majority of movies older than 20 years, we can’t even access most movies that are 20, or even 10 years old.
Anyone who is a tiny bit interested in good cinema and who isn’t satisfied with watching yet another Marvel movie won’t find what they are looking for even by looking at all streaming services combined. The only solution is to buy movies one by one. Or…
Build your app harming none of apples systems or APIs then.
This! I'm missing "Should I answer?" from Android so much these days!
I'm receiving tons of spam calls a day and of course I can not block unknown callers since I have stuff to be delivered, plumbers to fix my apartment etc...
Unfortunately I suppose no third party app will have access to phone code until Apple wants to (despite all dumb comments in this thread about piracy and torrenting).
It is simply astonishing that Apple has't already implemented functions like these, or at least let somebody else do that.
You know that the big ones you’re thinking of ( Spotify, Unreal, etc..) won’t be affected even one bit by torrenting, right ? It’s the small developers, that never asked for this, that are going to be pirated.
And soon we'll see "App Stores" that deliver pirated versions of Apps from other developers. It's just a matter of time. So if you have EVER developed a paid iOS app, soon people are going to steal it because of this EU legislation.
Torrents never left. Some people thought that streaming was more convenient. But pirating sees a massive increase and that’s a good thing. For both consumer and services.
Because companies need to put effort in it again or people will pirate. Prices need to drop or they’ll pirate. Quality needs to be increased otherwise people won’t even pirate it. It’s a big win for consumers!
If they are signed by any record company, this could actually still be illegal. Even if they (the artist) would allow it. (record company has publishing rights). But it could fall under "fair use", however I doubt that if it's just the unedited show.
There is also a difference between a whore house and your bedroom you share with your wife.
You don't want both places to be the same. Different use cases.
This is a bit of a coup for Apple. They’ll point to this and say that third-party AppStores have facilitated piracy which they are unable to stop.
I’m sure they’re delighted by this development. The only way this could get better for them would be if one of these apps secretly mined crypto in the background.
I’m sure they’re delighted by this development. The only way this could get better for them would be if one of these apps secretly mined crypto in the background.
Yes, just like how 99.99% of people who use a Nintendo Switch emulator on their PC is only playing games they already own and using ROMs they extracted from their purchased games.
As more and more of these “forbidden fruit” apps being released in EU market, we will get to see how an opened iOS market works irl. Glad to see torrent is opening in iOS, despite, just like someone says, me not doing it myself on my phone.