Deletes them from the Android store.
Monday, 8th December 2014 – 3:05 p.m.
Google has not been very eager to throw out apps from Android Store which has links to file sharing.
Turns down harder on pirate material
But now they narrow the app policy and deleted several apps that can be used to download content from The Pirate Bay.
In October removed the search box and links directly below the Pirate Bay search result.
According to TorrentFreak ensures Engine now also to downgrade the rating of sites that have something with file sharing to do – the way these matches come far down the list.
Can lose their accounts permanently
justifies the deletion of references to the company’s own rules, and US copyright laws.
The company is said to have received requests from industry before they deleted apps.
The developers of the apps were simultaneously warned that their accounts can be deleted from the Google Play Store on something similar happen again in the future.
– Do not do anything other than Chrome
TorrentFreak spoke with Gavin, the developer of the app The Pirate Bay Proxy. The app was very popular with 900,000 downloads and 45,000 active users every day.
Gavin appealed to Google because he believes that essentially do nothing else than what Google’s own browser is capable of, but he did not succeed.
“The app does not differ from Firefox or Chrome, it just pointing people to a working proxy page. Then it acts as any other browser. “
Wondered around roadblocks
More apps had built proxy so that the service could be used in countries where TPB is prohibited.
These apps are deleted from Google Play Store:
* The Pirate Bay Premium
* PirateApp
* The Pirate Bay Proxy
* The Pirate Bay Mirror
Source:
TorrentFreak
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