ipodnn.com— Applidium’s VLC free open-source universal iOS video player app VLC appears likely to be pulled from Apple’s iTunes store.
Nov 2, 2010View in Crawl 4
Agreed. It is consistently one of the first things I install on any new computer. I thought Apple made the right move when they gave this the greenlight. How typical of Apple though to screw something up with their DRM.
You do realize that the DRM is at the insistance of the content copyright holders? If Apple (and every other content selling company that have to play by the same rules) didn't have a DRM policy they would not be allowed to sell the content. Audio content copyright holders finally understood the only people they were penalizing were their customers and allowed Apple, Amazon, ect, to finally sell their content without DRM. This led to a huge increase in sales. Hopefully video producers will see the light and do the same.
This is the VLC developers (not the ones that ported it to the AppStore) that are enforcing this. Put it on them for not relaxing their enforcement of the GPL.
badqatNov 2, 2010
Apple will undoubtedly pull the app.
rufiohoNov 2, 2010
yup, see you later
Closed AccountNov 2, 2010
I love VLC.
bossm4nNov 2, 2010
Agreed. It is consistently one of the first things I install on any new computer. I thought Apple made the right move when they gave this the greenlight. How typical of Apple though to screw something up with their DRM.
macparrotNov 2, 2010
You do realize that the DRM is at the insistance of the content copyright holders? If Apple (and every other content selling company that have to play by the same rules) didn't have a DRM policy they would not be allowed to sell the content. Audio content copyright holders finally understood the only people they were penalizing were their customers and allowed Apple, Amazon, ect, to finally sell their content without DRM. This led to a huge increase in sales. Hopefully video producers will see the light and do the same.
rblancarteNov 2, 2010
This is the VLC developers (not the ones that ported it to the AppStore) that are enforcing this. Put it on them for not relaxing their enforcement of the GPL.
timbuc1Nov 2, 2010
Download it while you can!