Thin Lizzy news

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 ...

On Thursday, Apple began censoring the word ‘jailbreak’ used in their content on the iTunes Store, including Apps, songs, albums, podcast episodes, and iTunes U episodes.

As we reported earlier, Apple’s hatred of jailbreakers lead it to censor the word jailbreak on the iTunes Store , including the song "Jailbreak" by Irish rockers Thin Lizzy.

Apple has started to censor out the word “jailbreak” on all listings on the iTunes & App Stores. MacRumors reports that the filtering extends to even song and album titles, including an entire album from Thin Lizzy and two episodes of The Roy Rodgers Show. Apple has long been opposed to jailbreaking, which the company has argued is tantamount to copyright infringement. ...

Apple iTunes store customers attempting to buy the Thin Lizzy album “Jailbreak” were met with the name “J*******k” in its place after Apple on Thursday attempted to censor the word before changing its mind a short time later. Other instances of the word jailbreak were also censored in what is believed to be Apple’s newest [...] Apple iTunes Store Censors Word “Jailbreak” For Short Period Of Time ...

Apple censors everything called 'jailbreak' in the iTunes Store, giving Thin Lizzy and others a bad name.

For a brief time on Thursday Apple was censoring appearances of the word "jailbreak" on the iTunes Store, reports note. One example included the Thin Lizzy album and song of the same name, which were suddenly renamed "J*******k." Other instances of the word, though, are said to have remained unaffected. By Thursday afternoon Eastern time, the extra censorship is observed to have disappeared....

Do you know how much Apple hates jailbreaking? Apparently, it’s enough to label the mere mention of it as an obscenity, worthy of the full “**********” treatment. That’s right, searches within iTunes for anything relating to “jailbreak” now shows “j*******k” …

Belfast-born rock guitarist Gary Moore has died while on vacation in Spain, his manager said. He was 58. The BBC confirmed Sunday the Thin Lizzy musician's death. The cause, however, was not disclosed.

And why not some good ole (new) rock the house rock music. This is Witty Alley reminding me of Thin Lizzy.

‘LET ME ASK you a question,” George Pelecanos says as our interview comes to an end. “Are you a Thin Lizzy fan?” Given my Dublin connection, he has been itching to ask it all along. “I just think it’s an amazing story,” he says. “I get chills when I think that there’s a statue of Phil Lynott on a street in Dublin, that people leave flowers by the statue. I love stuff like that.”