So, many of you, hate piracy. But what is piracy? Who is responsible? Why does it happen?
Well, piracy is stealing basically copyrighted content (we're talking about apps right now). People say it's used for try before you buy, a feature abandoned at the bus stop by Apple. And the truth is: many people do so. But what about those who don't? Well these hardcore pirates steal and keep the app. But who is responsible for this nonsense? Is it Apple? Is it the pirates? Hackulous?
No. The people responsible for application piracy are those who host it. I'm not talking P2P, I'm talking FileDude, Hotfile, etc. Most small file hosts knowingly host pirated apps. But they take no action against it. Most traffic going to Hotfile comes from pirates who were redirected from Installous. But do they care? No. Most of their income comes from pirates who buy premium memberships for downloading apps. They could take action, like zshare, who hosts it but removes it as soon as they can, but they choose not to. They could easily remove all .ipa files or prohibit the upload of these files but they don't want to, they want. Take Mediafire for example, they're a loveable file host. They don't make you wait, they don't make you type in a captcha, but they do host .ipa files. They are a big file host and most likely would never even noticed it but I doubt that and most of the files stay. Now I'm not calling Mediafire a bunch of pirates. I'm calling FileDude (aka AppScene [the name says it all]) a bunch of pirates. It's rumoured that the host also helps run Hackulous and knowingly hosts the files. It's most likely that almost everything is an IPA there. Take their uploader system for example: a famous app cracker cracks a thousand apps and uploads them using FileDude. He gets more than a hundred million downloads and FileDude knows that he's a pirate but they don't care. No banhammering, nothing.
So, I guess it's all up to you. Who's the real pirate?
