µTorrent iPhone App Rejected, Heads Over To Cydia

4:15PM September 2, 2009 | Danny Allen

µMonitor is a little iPhone app that lets you remotely control µTorrent back at your computer. But like Transmission’s Drivetrain app, it’s been banned by Apple on anti-piracy grounds. Usefully, however, Jailbreakers can still pick it up via Cydia.

It kind of sucks that even a monitoring app got banned. But, according to Apple:

…this category of applications is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this type of application to the App Store.

So no torrent apps, at all, period. Right then.

Instructions on how to install µMonitor on a Jailbroken iPhone can be found here: [µMonitor via TorrentFreak]

Comments

norp

September 3, 2009 at 1:29 PM

So wouldn’t it be easier to make an iphone web interface for µTorrent that uses the iphone html apis? I know the gmail web client is better than the built in iphone mail client and there is no need to get anything approved by apple!

matt

September 3, 2009 at 2:24 PM

yeah, and the fucking ipod is often used for playing pirated material! don’t see them banning that!
CD burners are “often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights” what about them?

The ps2 mod chip case showed us that things like this are only illegal if their SOLE purpose is illegal. (using it to play other region games was not illegal)

This clearly shows that its just a small group of people at apple forcing their own opinion on everyone. I bet they really get off on it.

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