Apple Lifts Ban On the Word "Jailbreak"

Gunkerty Jeb writes "After banning the word 'jailbreak' from its app store and music library, Apple [Friday] reversed course and again permits the term — slang for hacking into a device to download unauthorized content — to appear on iTunes and its App Store. On Thursday bloggers noticed Apple had censored the word, using the Thin Lizzy album 'Jailbreak' as an example. For awhile, the title was listed as 'J******k' in Apple's music library, at least its U.S. version. In other instances, digital content continued to bear the full name Jailbreak."

Re:Apple...

[Severus Snape]

Yes, because the American government is so lovely.

Hanlon's Razor

[BasilBrush]

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Re:This had so much potential...

[Anonymous Coward]

They should have called it a common word, like "Orange".

Yeah, but that would've made comparisons difficult.

Re:This had so much potential...

[Sulphur]

They should have called it a common word, like "Orange".

Yeah, but that would've made comparisons difficult.

True.

Also there was an Orange computer at one time. They got peeled and squeezed out of business though.