Apple Starts Taking ACTION TO Remove Sites Selling Beta Versions of iOS and OS X. Have you been guilt of buying a beta from these type sites. Send the site owners your UDID and they register you with their developer account for a small fee of course. The sites have gotten very popular with the release of Beta iOS 6. I have personally seen several of these myself. I often wondered why Apple being a billion dollar industry didn’t go after these guys. I knew it was against policy and user agreements but Apple seem to just brush it off. Well, thats not the case anymore. MacStories has reported the sitess have been taken down and a DMCA request filed against the UDID activation sites with their host providers. MacStories reached out to some of these accused sites and was returned the following email:
In the email, the site owner said that their website made $75,000 since last June, when Apple released the first beta of iOS 6 to developers. “We do not believe our service was infringing and our services did not violate their guidelines for iOS 6?, the site owner commented, adding that they will soon launch another similar site, “with better and more secure data lines to handle Apple”.
The owner of another site replied to our emails with a “no comment”. According to him, “the Wired article has caused all these sites to go down”.
I think what really brought the spot light on these site offenders was the article published by Wired called Want iOS 6? No Problem: Buy It Now From a Scofflaw Developer. Being such a popular publisher I think Apple felt they had to do something or other things would start occurring of this nature. What do you think? Why did Apple wait so long to start the UDID activation fight?
Sources: Cultofmac, Macstories
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