{"id":6147,"date":"2012-09-23T19:42:38","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T00:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6147"},"modified":"2012-09-24T07:34:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T12:34:56","slug":"bittorrent-and-the-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/bittorrent-and-the-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"BitTorrent and the App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/apple-lifts-ban-on-bittorrent-apps-or-so-it-seems-120907\/\">TorrentFreak<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=4488499\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/apple-lifts-ban-on-bittorrent-apps-or-so-it-seems-120907\/\"><p>Apple defended this policy and told developers that their apps were <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/apple-bans-bittorrent-software-090511\/\">not allowed<\/a> &ldquo;because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, now some apps are being approved:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/apple-lifts-ban-on-bittorrent-apps-or-so-it-seems-120907\/\"><p>While other BitTorrent apps slipped by Apple&rsquo;s review team for a day or two, Conttrol&rsquo;s entrance into the App store is not an isolated incident. A few months ago Apple also blessed <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/transmission-rpc\/id527302090?ls=1&amp;mt=8\">Transmission RPC<\/a>, a remote control for the Transmission popular client.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TorrentFreak (via Hacker News): Apple defended this policy and told developers that their apps were not allowed &ldquo;because this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third-party rights.&rdquo; However, now some apps are being approved: While other BitTorrent apps slipped by Apple&rsquo;s review team for a day or two, Conttrol&rsquo;s entrance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,130,38,129,31,26],"class_list":["post-6147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-rejection","tag-apple","tag-bittorrent","tag-ios","tag-iosapp"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6151,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}