Author Of iPhone Pirating App Angry That His Own App Was Pirated
from the you're-doing-it-wrong dept
Well, here's an odd one. Gizmodo wrote about the release of Crackulous, an iPhone app for jailbroken iPhones that allowed users to make unauthorized copies of iPhone apps. That, by itself, isn't all that interesting. However, the author of the software then wrote to the Gizmodo author very upset that the Gizmodo story linked not to his original app but (you guessed it) an unauthorized copy of the app. When Gizmodo's Adam Frucci pointed out the irony of this, the guy who created Crackulous said that he needed the link to point to his app because "I need people to support my work... I deserve appreciation." I think someone missed the point. Update: The original post was updated, noting that the guy who wrote in was not, in fact, the original creator of the software.
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Come on, you gotta give a guy some warning. My screen is covered in coffee now.
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OTOH
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Learn to Read
Next time you want to crap out a post to get something eye-catching in your headline, read the entire damned post. If children can do it, you should be able to as well.
Bad enough you're scraping days-old news, but then you scrape only the top-part of the story and then don't even bother to read the full post which had all the full story in it.
Welcome to one less visitor/RSS subscriber due to your laziness and incompetence.
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I had the post open in a tab when it was first sent in, and just got around to writing it up. Didn't realize it had been updated, and I've now updated the post to reflect that.
Next time you want to crap out a post to get something eye-catching in your headline, read the entire damned post. If children can do it, you should be able to as well.
Yup. Sorry about that.
Bad enough you're scraping days-old news, but then you scrape only the top-part of the story and then don't even bother to read the full post which had all the full story in it.
Not scraping days old news. As I said, I had it open, and just got around to writing it up. Sorry you feel so strongly about this. Didn't realize a blog post could be so offensive.
Welcome to one less visitor/RSS subscriber due to your laziness and incompetence.
Fair enough.
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YOU CAN INCLUDE ME IN THAT ONE LESS VISITOR LIST AS WELL!!!
CHRIST MIKE! COME ON!!!
I'M MEETING FRIENDS FOR DINNER!!!
GOOD NIGHT AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A PLEASANT EVENING!
I'LL CHECK IN TOMORROW, DAMNIT!!!
-KevinC
That is what we were doing, right?
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I'd rather read a blog that is not afraid to correct itself than the MANY out there that do not even bother... in fact, I'd rather read a blog that corrects itself than read big media because they NEVER correct themselves on relatively small issues like this (and they are always days old!).
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That's Entertainment
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fess up
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"scraping days-old news"
Well, then scrape this.
Businesses Lose More Than $1 Trillion in Intellectual Property Due to Data Theft and Cybercrime
Found via http://www.darkreading.com/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212903530
(c ough)
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Re: "scraping days-old news"
just kicking someone who applied same idea without influence or whatsoever from original patent holder, does not mean infringement, specially when so many "new" ideas are based on a combination of old ideas in a more practical way
so let's just hold on that line from people who lost due to real IP theft (reverse engineering an existent product, etc) and dropping the music issue, that's old business gone rotten) and i guess that trillion does not apply no where close to justify the political reprisal of the issue
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"Don't panic, we've got this intrusion prevention suite we can sell you."
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Heh. This interests me. What, exactly, is that pavlovian response that you think I have?
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