With all the new/revised rules for App Store approvals, who knows what will show up in the Store? First it was Google Voice apps and now a BitTorrent app? Could this one have slipped through the Apple cracks? Remember Handy Light and MiTube?
IS Drive by Derek Kepner is an app that works with ImageShack‘s BitTorrent service, which allows users to manage their downloads. While BitTorrent is not illegal as a file sharing protocol; it is the preferred method to copy the unauthorized exchange of music and video - and that’s a reason for Apple to reject applications that allow users to manage their downloads.
“This app allows you to check and manage the downloads in your ImageShack Drive account.” IS Drive stealthily hides any mention of the word ‘BitTorrent’ in the app’s description or screenshots but it is mentioned in the 1-star reviews it is getting. Charging people $4.99 for an app when ImageShack Drive already is a paid service, won’t get too many people to purchase this app, illegal or not. The app is still available as of this morning, Monday, October 4, 2010. If you feel the need to have an app like this on your iDevice, get it before Apple moves it to the trash bin.
[via The Next Web]
