Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
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#2Could this be considered libel?
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#3My gut reaction is to temper my response to this because I tend to overreact to injustice, but this is just unforgivable.
Re: Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
#4Could this be considered libel?
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Re: Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
#5Booby trapped software. Very clever, except for when it blows up in your face.
At least they only posted to twitter instead of [1] something a lot worse (think file deletion, etc).
Generally a bad idea, if you're of the leet warez d00d type, to give any illicitly acquired app your credentials to anything important, at least until you've verified that it's safe.
The armchair lawyer in me wonders if someone could get a libel/defamation suit going because of this. The average user wouldn't probably have much to go on, but the head of a company perhaps.. yikes.
[1]: http://www.geocities.ws/johnboy_tutorials/bt.html
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#6Sloppy effort on behalf of the developers. Andreas (author of the blog post) was right to deny it permission to use his Twitter account the first few times but gave in eventually because of the nagging.
If there was a way to see expanded permissions before allowing a program to update perhaps he would have not updated at all?
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#8The fact that the developer would only allow the app to run if the user granted access to their twitter feed would be very annoying to me. This scenario is exactly what Apple tried to help users avoid with Twitter permissions. I understand the developers wishes to stop piracy - but this is the wrong way. Simply checking for Installous is an incredibly lazy hack to check for piracy.
Re: Dictionary app auto-posts piracy accusations on users’ Twitter accounts
#9Booby trapped software. Very clever, except for when it blows up in your face. At least they only posted to twitter instead of [1] something a lot worse (think file deletion, etc). Generally a bad idea, if you're of the leet warez d00d type, to give any illicitly acquired app your credentials to anything important, at least until you've verified that it's safe. The armchair lawyer in me wonders if someone could get a…
Something we see discussed on occasion is a call for app developers to explain in detail why they request certain permissions. If this developer were required to explain (and the user required to acknowledge) the requested permission, it may have prevented the whole episode.
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#10This is so offensive. I get piracy is an issue, but how did they ever think this would be a legitimate solution?
Honestly, just let the quality of your app speak for itself.