Den stora tråden om CYDIA apps/tweaks/themes etc. [NY TRÅD]

Shortly before Steve Job's death, Apple ramped up intellectual property enforcement in their ongoing patent battle against Android. They began scraping apptrackr for links to fileape and mediafire, and sending huge takedown notices. At first this wasn't a problem, but then those hosts began banning our mirroring bots, leading to lots of dead links.

To combat this, we've decided to place a CAPTCHA on apptrackr outbound links. We had already tried tweaking our throttling system a bit, but Apple got tricky, and now this is just about the only way to make sure they can't scrape our website for links.

(On the funny side, it seems like we inadvertently corrupted websites who scrape our website for content.)

Apple's pressure doesn't stop at the hosts themselves. We needed to distance ourselves from Apple's recent IP firm contracts in the Netherlands, who no doubt have set us in their crosshairs. On Monday, we completely moved apptrackr to two separate countries where we believe it'll be much safer. Unfortunately, this rose our server costs beyond what we were prepared for.

Källa: http://hackulo.us/forums/index.php?/topic/158935-where-we-stand-on-apptrackr/