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What makes this so much more complicated is the fact that the App Store is the only (legit) way to get apps on your device.

If there had been other ways to promote and sell apps besides the App Store, then it would have been wrong of Apple to cancel their developer license.

Then they could just have banned them from the App Store — for spamming it. Clearly, they are just spamming the App Store with 900+ apps that does basically nothing in the hopes of tricking a few people to buy it (there's no money back guarantee).

That's a model I'd love to see: the App Store reduced to a store with "safeware" apps approved by Apple.

But the way it is now, that joker certainly is spamming the App Store, his entire business is based on fooling people — he and his company should be banned from it. It is, however, too bad he can't continue to sell his spam apps on the web and promote them on his own.

In India, VSNL is the only legitimate way to get internet connectivity from overseas. Does that mean that VSNL has an obligation to filter your internet access to prevent copyright infringement?

Well, with a contrived example, you can prove anything. I wouldn't say Apple's App Store interferes with your right to free speech.

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