garyopa
07-10-2012, 08:10 PM
No more business there
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Apple has decided to finally attack websites who were selling access to public unreleased iOS builds
Developers enrolled in Apple's official program (99$/year) are the only ones that have the right (officially) to access iOS betas and unreleased features. With each account, they can activate up to 100 devices than can benefit from this. Taking advantage of this capability, some of them were selling "early access" to iOS 6 betas via website that sell the slots at very low price making a small "fortune". Now Apple, has decided to counter-attack and several websites have been shut down yet.
According to MacStories:
Last month, Andy Baio wrote a story for Wired detailing the world of selling access to Apple beta software to non-developers. Specifically, Baio’s piece focused on sites that, for a price, allowed regular people to have their UDID (unique device identifier) activated for installation of iOS betas, which Apple makes available for developers only. To install an iOS beta, a developer has to register his/her account with Apple, which costs $99 per year and allows for the configuration of 100 devices in the so-called “Provisioning Portal” through the aforementioned UDID.
While becoming a registered developer costs $99, sites selling UDID activation did so for a low price, usually within the range of $10
After noticing several of the sites mentioned in Baio’s article had become unavailable in recent weeks (activatemyios.com, iosudidregistrations.com, activatemyudid.com, udidregistration.com, instantudidactivation.com), we reached out to some of them asking whether Apple was behind the takedown of their “services”, which infringed on Apple’s developer agreement. While most of our emails bounced, we heard back from one of the site owners (who asked to remain anonymous), who confirmed his hosting provider took down the site after a complaint for copyright infringement by Apple. Similarly, the CEO of Fused tweeted in a reply to Andy Baio that Apple had been “fairly heavy-handed” with DMCA requests to UDID-selling sites hosted on their network.
NEWS SOURCE: Apple cracking down on sites selling access to iOS betas (via) MacStories (http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-cracking-down-on-sites-selling-access-to-ios-betas/)
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!
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Apple has decided to finally attack websites who were selling access to public unreleased iOS builds
Developers enrolled in Apple's official program (99$/year) are the only ones that have the right (officially) to access iOS betas and unreleased features. With each account, they can activate up to 100 devices than can benefit from this. Taking advantage of this capability, some of them were selling "early access" to iOS 6 betas via website that sell the slots at very low price making a small "fortune". Now Apple, has decided to counter-attack and several websites have been shut down yet.
According to MacStories:
Last month, Andy Baio wrote a story for Wired detailing the world of selling access to Apple beta software to non-developers. Specifically, Baio’s piece focused on sites that, for a price, allowed regular people to have their UDID (unique device identifier) activated for installation of iOS betas, which Apple makes available for developers only. To install an iOS beta, a developer has to register his/her account with Apple, which costs $99 per year and allows for the configuration of 100 devices in the so-called “Provisioning Portal” through the aforementioned UDID.
While becoming a registered developer costs $99, sites selling UDID activation did so for a low price, usually within the range of $10
After noticing several of the sites mentioned in Baio’s article had become unavailable in recent weeks (activatemyios.com, iosudidregistrations.com, activatemyudid.com, udidregistration.com, instantudidactivation.com), we reached out to some of them asking whether Apple was behind the takedown of their “services”, which infringed on Apple’s developer agreement. While most of our emails bounced, we heard back from one of the site owners (who asked to remain anonymous), who confirmed his hosting provider took down the site after a complaint for copyright infringement by Apple. Similarly, the CEO of Fused tweeted in a reply to Andy Baio that Apple had been “fairly heavy-handed” with DMCA requests to UDID-selling sites hosted on their network.
NEWS SOURCE: Apple cracking down on sites selling access to iOS betas (via) MacStories (http://www.macstories.net/news/apple-cracking-down-on-sites-selling-access-to-ios-betas/)
Our thanks to 'Kaos2K' for this news item!