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# Apple Bans Drivetrain BitTorrent App
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/apple-bans-drivetrain-bittorrent-app/
- Published: 2009-05-13T07:48:11.000Z
- Updated: 2009-05-13T07:48:11.000Z
- Description: In what is perhaps a nod to its major label clients, Apple has banned BitTorrent application Drivetrain from its iPhone application store. "This category of applications is often used for. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2009/05/apple-bans-drivetrain-bittorrent-app.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Apps, Mobile & SMS, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 11:03

[![Banned mobile](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201156f8e1d2b970c-120wi)](http://hypebot.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451b36c69e201156f8e1d2b970c-pi?ref=hypebot.com)

In what is perhaps a nod to its major label clients, Apple has banned BitTorrent application Drivetrain from its iPhone application store. "This category of applications is often used for the  
purpose of infringing third party rights. We have chosen to not publish this  
type of application to the App Store," according to Apple. But Drivetrain's developers [Maza Digital](http://www.mazadigital.com/products/iphone/drivetrain/?ref=hypebot.com) disagrees…

Calling the rejection “ridiculous”, Maza told [iLounge](http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/apple-rejects-bittorrent-control-app-drivetrain/16790?ref=hypebot.com) that “a BitTorrent client or the BitTorrent protocol are not illegal (and does not infringe on third party rights)” and hat Apple “seems to have decided that any app that has anything to do with BitTorrent (even if the app does not download/upload anything) is treated as doing something that ‘is often used for the purpose of infringing third party rights,’ and will therefore likely be rejected.”