You're avoiding the illegal redistributing of Apple's copyrighted code without Apple's permission. That right there is enough to completely shut them down. iOS has two DRM acceptance levels, all or none. Either they disable all DRM, which could have adverse effects that make iOS rather unusable, or they're stripping the DRM from the App Store apps because they certainly aren't resigning the code with Apple's private key. Resigning the DRM is the only way they could "flag" the DRM to be allowed. The price of the app has nothing to do with it. It still violates many of Apple's rules and regulations and quite of few of federal laws that not only the US has, but many other countries as well. Apple has rarely gone after pirates themselves. They didn't go after hackulo.us until many developers pushed them into it.
And let's not overlook the biggest removal of DRM yet, the decrypting of the IPSW's disk images. Under technical standards, the encryption on the disk images is considered DRM, whited00r removes that. Thus, even under technical terms, they are removing DRM.
Let me explain to you how they depend on piracy. User A downloads the illegally redistributed IPSW that contains lots of Apple's copyrighted code without Apple's permission in direct violation of US copyright law. User A then likes the firmware and donates to the whited00r people. User A contributes to piracy and whited00r makes a profit from Apple's work without Apple receiving a share of the profits. The definition of piracy. That's how this would turn out in court as them making a profit from piracy.
I'm not a big fan of them because they redistribute some of my older App Store apps or old versions of my apps, much to my disdain. All of those older version are/were free and others are/were paid. These older version don't have any DRM on them anymore (I've checked them) and are only available through illegal means. Yet, can be gotten through whited00r's store. However the whited00r copy and the illegal means copy have the same attributes and the same checksums.
Lastly let's not forget that the software license that allows you to download and use the software on the device explicitly prohibits the modification and redistribution of the software. The license also states that only IPSW's downloaded from Apple are legal. I quote from the iOS 3.1 license:
Actually - remember that they're violating TOU, not against the law. They put their own "DRM" on, and the software included will only ignore Apple's DRM if this fake DRM key is present.
There hasn't been any encryption on iOS IPSW's since 1.1.4, IIRC. And decryption isn't illegal, my friend, DCMA protects us to a degree.
They do not profit, as a matter of fact I know the man who runs the project - he loses aprox. 50 dollars per month even with donations, just wanted to clarify it.
Seriously dude? You're being sort of a jerk about defending apple here- WD is completely in the legal right. If you want to get it off the WD store - CONTACT WD. At this point I can only assume you're lying (not saying you are... but still a possibility)
Hell, if you tell me what the name of your app is, I can get it off by the end of the day.
Check out WD's disclaimer. They don't support pirates, but pirates use WD's software. Just like how pirates use Saurik's software. And how pirates use YOUR software. Using your logic, YOU are a pirate because people can pirate your software.
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I always liked your posts, you seemed like a logical guy up until now.
(And at the end of the day - Apple ALWAYS goes after pirates. Try and find a OS X DMG on any non-torrent site. I dare you.)
