Installous is down

I am at the moment already at risk, and would risk even more with the exposure that an Install0us v3 release will definitely bring me. Call me a coward, but as I said, hiding under covers is not a life for me.

Moreover, these days in my country piracy is a hot subject among politicians I do not want to be flamed in a trial for something that I do as a hobby, and I do not want to involve any people with me in this. I am sincerely sorry to the people who followed me thinking we were legit, my honest mistake.

This guy is either thinking we are dumbasses or he is very naive. Either way, and whatever your opinion about cracked applications might be, one has to admit that what puy0 did was big. I mean, he had a good 2-year run. In some ways, you can compare him to the creator of Napster.

It sure was completely illegal, but it was the first of its kind. What it's not, is a way of ripping off developers. And people are not happy at all We don't support piracy and the installation of pirated apps, the purpose of jailbreaking an iOS device should be to gain access to features that Apple does not allow.

I am sure that many jailbreakers won't be too happy with the fact that these tools will never exist, ever again. By Adnan. Dec 31, EST. Share Tweet Submit. Last Updated on June 3, by James Betterson. Initially started as a project to allow jailbroken iOS users to test apps before buying them from the iTunes App Store, Installous app later reshaped into a hub where anyone could download paid iOS apps without having to pay anything. There were millions of apps for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch users — all of them free to download.

According to a blog post on Hackulous website , this famous Cydia repo is shutting down, taking with it all the apps including Installous. This means no more cracked or pirated apps. The journey ends with this blog post:.

As far as I know, Installous was the easiest and fastest way to install cracked apps onto your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad. As I mentioned above, this is just a small victory against app piracy in general.