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June 23, 2005

Who Made BadApple?

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Posted by Alex Williams

Who made BadApple? It's a plug in for iTunes 4.9 made by BadFruit that turns the Apple iTunes software into a downloading podcast machine.

The BadApple news comes as Apple's CEO Steve Jobs announced recently that Apple iTunes 4.9 will support podcasting. Apple is reported to be a few weeks ahead of schedule and are evangelizing their support for podcasting. Jobs even goes as far to call podcasting the hottest thing in radio.

But who is behind BadApple? No one has fessed up. But behind it is some pretty sophisticated programming that is causing some to speculate that this is not some lone hacker making a play.

From CNET:

"At this point, there is no official indication of BadFruit's origin. But a handful of signs seem to link the site to MP3Tunes.com, the online song store opened a few months ago by MP3.com founder Michael Robertson.

Log files created by the software indicate that it talks to a server hosted by MP3Tunes. Code inside the software package, once downloaded, also show links to MP3Tunes.

The privacy policies displayed by MP3Tunes.com and BadFruit are also identical in almost every way, with details such as the name of the company and the name of the service changed. BadFruit's terms of use say that any legal actions concerning the software should be taken in San Diego County, where Robertson's companies are based. "

So, who madeBadApple? What does it mean for Apple? What is the next move? Is it a legal one?

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