Crackulous is a new application for jailbroken iPhones (iPhones which have been hacked to run non-App Store software), and it has a fairly nefarious purpose — to strip the copy protection from bought applications and render them free to distribute. In short, it’s a piracy tool.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone, you’ll know how to install it. Just go to the Cydia application and find it in the directory. Launch Crackulous and there will be a list of the applications on your iPhone. Choose, click and wait. The stripped version is placed in a separate folder on the iPhone ready to be distributed.
We’re pretty much against this. Although Apple’s FairPlay DRM was pretty onerous when applied to music, it seems a fair way to protect developers of applications — after all, while purchased music should be playable on any device you want, these apps only work on your iPhone and iPod Touch. All of them. Once bought you have no limit on how many of your own iGadgets you can put it on.
And before you think this is all an innocent experiment, wait until these cracked apps start showing up on BitTorrent and can be simply dropped into iTunes for installation on any iPhone. Apple legal team, start your engines!
Product page [Crackulous]
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