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If it's not already, it would be nice if Google and Apple made these types of violations grounds for revoking approval of apps from their app stores. In genera

If it's not already, it would be nice if Google and Apple made these types of violations grounds for revoking approval of apps from their app stores. In general I abhor the whole concept of the "blessed app" walled garden gatekeeping, but if they're doing it anyway (and they are) they may as well do some good while they're at it.

RobotToaster 4y ago
Isn't a copyright violation already some sort of grounds for removal? If someone uploaded an app with a bunch of disney copyrighted stuff it would be pulled pretty quickly. I imagine at the least the original developers could file a DMCA notice.
- intelVISA 4y ago
  Seems like it should be, after all if you publish an app that plays copyrighted music it'd be folded by The Powers That Be pretty quickly.
- JohnFen 4y ago
  In law, the size of your warchest matters a whole lot more than you think. Disney has an enormous warchest. You probably don't.
saurik 4y ago
https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you.html https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-an... http://web.archive.org/web/20110115040843/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/08/vlc-app-removed-from-app-store http://web.archive.org/web/20110115040843/http://www.tuaw.co... http://web.archive.org/web/20110111004349/http://planet.videolan.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110111004349/http://planet.vide...
cwillu 4y ago
I mean, if Voice.ai doesn't have the rights to distribute a piece of software, then google and apple also do not have rights to distribute it. (They may have required that voice.ai (or whoever) indemnify them against legal action resulting from voice.ai's actions) Perhaps the authors of praat or libgcrypt could issue a DMCA takedown request to apple and google?
kuroguro 4y ago
Imagine if google's app store ended up with a similar system to yt's content ID - fingerprinting binaries to check if they comply with licensing lol

RobotToaster 4y ago

Isn't a copyright violation already some sort of grounds for removal? If someone uploaded an app with a bunch of disney copyrighted stuff it would be pulled pretty quickly. I imagine at the least the original developers could file a DMCA notice.

intelVISA 4y ago
Seems like it should be, after all if you publish an app that plays copyrighted music it'd be folded by The Powers That Be pretty quickly.
JohnFen 4y ago
In law, the size of your warchest matters a whole lot more than you think. Disney has an enormous warchest. You probably don't.

saurik 4y ago

https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-and-you.html https://www.engadget.com/2011-01-09-the-gpl-the-app-store-an... http://web.archive.org/web/20110115040843/http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/08/vlc-app-removed-from-app-store http://web.archive.org/web/20110115040843/http://www.tuaw.co... http://web.archive.org/web/20110111004349/http://planet.videolan.org/ http://web.archive.org/web/20110111004349/http://planet.vide...

cwillu 4y ago

I mean, if Voice.ai doesn't have the rights to distribute a piece of software, then google and apple also do not have rights to distribute it. (They may have required that voice.ai (or whoever) indemnify them against legal action resulting from voice.ai's actions) Perhaps the authors of praat or libgcrypt could issue a DMCA takedown request to apple and google?

kuroguro 4y ago

Imagine if google's app store ended up with a similar system to yt's content ID - fingerprinting binaries to check if they comply with licensing lol