Play Store kills PirateBay applications

http://torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-bay-apps-play-store-141205/

by yason • 12 years ago

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yason• 12 years ago

I posted this not necessarily because of pirate politics but because this is an example of how important it is to have software in free distribution. Suppose that the majority of software would only be installable from app stores and third-party installs were disabled. That would immediately censor any software deemed questionable by the status quo.

And software is speech: programmers "talk" a lot by writing programs, and if at some point app stores are the only way to publish your programs you are no longer able to express your ideas unless they conform to what is politically correct. Thus, no new ideas could fly anymore.

There's Linux but Android is a Linux too and quite locked down. In future there might be less hardware willing to run free Linux distributions such as Debian. It would drive hackers back underground.

Play Store kills PirateBay applications

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