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Legally purchase a $7 app and get screwed by the DRM.

Pirate a $7 app and subvert the DRM using a Jailbreak tweak like xCon.

It seems that this only hurts the legitimate users, as others will still be able to pirate the app.



Just to clarify what xCon does: it's intended for use with legally-purchased App Store apps that refuse to work correctly on jailbroken devices - xCon tricks those apps into thinking that they're running on non-jailbroken devices.

So yes, the gun-jamming hurts legitimate users, but those legitimate users can use xCon to work around it.

Here's some more documentation: http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/XCon


Why would I want to support a developer that treats me as a criminal off the bat? I might as well be a criminal and just pirate it at that point... Self fulfilling prophecies at work.




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