For all of you who are waiting for the inevitable release of the iOS 4.1 jailbreak tool GreenPois0n, you may think talking about piracy in relation to jailbreaking is still pretty ironic. People still widely criticize those who opt for the now legal jailbreak approach but what about those people who plan to install cracked apps from the App Store onto their iDevice? It was recently announced via Twitter that the Chronic Dev-Team will not have the ability to block piracy on jailbroken devices, even if they would like to stop it. This means that when GreenPoison is finally available, users are theoretically free to do whatever they like on the device.

According to a recent post on Twitter by the Chronic Dev Team, makers of the infamous SHAtter exploit that will jailbreak all current iOS devices for life (including the new Apple TV), they don’t want that to be the case. Currently the team is trying to make the exploit in such a way as to disallow the ability to use Installous or similar applications to download cracked App Store apps (note, AppAdvice does not condone the use of such apps).

Many people are against downloading cracked App Store apps because developers have to eat too, as MuscleNerd points out, when you jailbreak your iDevice, you allow unsigned code to execute on it (simply put: You can run applications that aren’t approved by Apple) , and unsigned code is  very powerful. Even if they blocked the repository Installous is in, nothing’s stopping it to be moved to a different repository, and if they chose to block the name “Installous” in all Cydia apps, nothing’s stopping developers from simply changing the name (Not to mention it would also block any apps that may be against piracy or telling people not to use Installous).

Trust me, if I could block Installous I would, but doing it may be more trouble than it’s worth if your efforts can easily be foiled by a couple clever developers, as this Engadget editorial points out. Jailbreaking your iPhone can lead to many good things – Themes, tweaks, tethering, unlocking… But part of having a “Free” device (not “free beer” free, but “freedom”, as in you can do whatever you want with it) is that you can do whatever takes your fancy on it, and that includes the use of frowned-upon applications that distribute illegal content.

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Sources: Chronic Dev Team (Blog), Chronic Dev Team (Twitter), Engadget, MuscleNerd (Twitter)

Authors: _GadgetNews

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