Prostopleer for iPhone, RIAA and requests to be killed against the wall

At the end of 2010, we (Treebune) together with the guys from Prostopleer released a simple iPhone application - find mp3 on the iPhone and lose. Well, very spartan.



Why spartan? Yes, simply because I was not sure how much the application will live in the AppStore - a day, two, a month? The rigor of Apple regarding the legality of content is known to all.

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The application was (and is) free, and then also without ads at all. Everyone loves free music, and in the first week 50,000 people downloaded the application, while only 20% of them were from the CIS - the rest is Europe, Latin America.

And after another 5 days, we received the classic “cease and desist” (known as “kill the wall” from the RIAA with a request to remove the application from the sale).

Apparently, the mechanism of stacking is ridiculously simple - if this is not a complaint, then the representatives simply read the thematic blogs and press the person who makes the noise with a spear.



The most interesting thing about this story is the position of Apple. Instead of immediately giving the ass foot, an Apple spokesman wrote that, here, got the paper, we want to listen to your arguments. If you want - until the issue is resolved, remove it from the sale yourself.

We, as creators of the interface only, have removed the application from sale. It makes no sense to annoy Apple and the RIAA. And then they changed the version, they also missed it, began to filter part of the content by region. You may not notice this.



There are other clients in the AppStore, but this version is free, and in it you can listen to playlists created in prostopleer.com. Download here http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prostopleer-streaming-audio/id388196236? Mt = 8 How long it will last this time - God knows. :)