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This is not a piracy app; it's a torrent client app. It's just used to share files. I use it to share my videos & photos of my cat. it would be nice if someon
by net01 1y ago
This is not a piracy app; it's a torrent client app.
It's just used to share files. I use it to share my videos & photos of my cat.
it would be nice if someone had a backbone and fought Apple like Epic's Tim Sweeney.
- freedomben 1y agoYou are of course correct, but you misunderstand the PR machine. Apple can easily claim they are combatting piracy, and 99.5% of all people will accept that as doctrine. The truth doesn't matter.
- dkiebd 1y agoBut people benefit from piracy, so I doubt people will support Apple here. Media companies on the other hand…
- nicce 1y agoPeople benefit from robbery too. Words have still a meaning and we should at least try to word it in a way which sounds legal.
- chii 1y ago> But people benefit from piracy the benefit is private. Nobody would publicly claim they support piracy, because it's too politically incorrect. So the PR machine doesn't have a hard job at all convincing law makers of a non-truth, despite privately that people would generally not agree with said non-truth.
- Jensson 1y ago> Nobody would publicly claim they support piracy, because it's too politically incorrect. Many in Europe do, there are even political parties for that.
- bsimpson 1y agoTim Sweeney's backbone is in whatever shape makes him the most money. He's an opportunist (and probably a narcissist), not a freedom fighter.
- benoau 1y agoBanning apps like Kindle and Patreon from linking to their own payments should never have happened. Especially Patreon - Apple wrote a rule commandeering 30% of a then-five-year old app's revenue and coerced them into using IAP to get it, nobody should be supportive of this whatever Sweeney's shortcomings or motivations.
- freejazz 1y agoSeems like you are having a different conversation: "it would be nice if someone had a backbone and fought Apple like Epic's Tim Sweeney."
- benoau 1y agoNo I disagree that we need a "better" person to disrupt what Apple is doing, that's just shifting the goal posts to favor Apple doing it longer. The best person to do it is the one who did it.
- freejazz 1y agoOnce again, not the proposition that was being offered. It's not that he's better. It was claimed he has a spine and it was pointed out that he doesn't. It's not a comment on if Apple is good or not. It's not a comment on whether or not there is someone better. It is a comment on Tim's motivations.
- cmcaleer 1y agoHere's a question on expected value. Do you think Epic makes more money if: (a) they agree to Apple's demands and have Fortnite on the App Store during its peak of popularity for years and eat the junk fees on mtx or (b) they fight an extremely costly lawsuit, which they have no guarantee of winning, for years, during which time Fortnite could leave the cultural zeitgeist (which it to some extent has) and maybe eventually one day get closer to 95% of mtx money? If you think it's not (a), I would love to know why. Sweeney seems not that motivated by money, he's already filthy rich.
- immibis 1y agoEveryone and their dog knows that torrents are exclusively used for piracy. It's not true, of course, but everyone and their dog still knows it.
- skwirl 1y agoSurely we all know that when we post or upvote comments like this that we are being incredibly disingenuous.