iPhone App Piracy

The Myth of iPhone App Piracy? There are a lot of things that can be done now using apps on your devices. iPhone piracy may be one of the most dreadful one or not. Most people may thing that it is a big problem when it is not.

How It Works

It’s tough to talk about iPhone app piracy without tacitly endorsing it. The mere mention of DRM cracking methods and application sources is—or rather, was—enough to send people looking, and presumably, stealing. But look at the piracy subscene today reveals that, like the jailbreak scene it’s a part of, it’s just not the same as it used to be.

Kicking off your career in app theft isn’t too hard, and it’ll only take a few minutes of Googling to get the full instructions. Still, I’ll keep this as abstract as possible. Here’s how you do it:

• Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod
• Open Cydia, the jailbreak equivalent of the App Store, and add a particular download source that isn’t part of the default lineup
• Download two apps: One that lets you crack apps you’ve purchased for the benefit of others; and another that lets you install cracked applications yourself
• Download cracked apps to your heart’s content, from various sources around the internet

At the peak, there were sites that aggregated huge numbers of download links together into an easily browsable website, which meant that once your phone was cracked, you could tap through these websites like you’d browse the App Store—links to the latest apps were plentiful, and you could snag that game you just read about on Gizmodo within a day or so, tops. The most popular of these sites, called Appulo.us, disappeared just last month, leaving pirates without a centralized resource for apps. Soon, torrent sites and second-tier link-dumps picked up the slack, at least for people dedicated and savvy enough to find them. So, yeah, piracy is alive, to be sure. But how serious is it?
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