Removed WikiLeaks iPhone App Made $5,840, $1 From Each Sale Will Be Donated To WikiLeaks

[Joanne98]

Igor Barinov, the developer behind the WikiLeaks app that got removed from the App store, has revealed the total breakdown of his app’s reach before it got taken down by Apple. Total damage? 4443 downloads and $5,840.14 in profit. The Moscow-based Barinov says that he’ll be donating $1.00 from each sale, a total of $4443 dollars, to WikiLeaks.

Barinov explained his motivations on our original post, “I dont mind what wikileaks posts. But i like the way they are defending what i care about = my domain, my traffic, my 127.0.0.1. And if that way will lead to “alternative internet” – i dont want just to press Like button.”

Perhaps this semi-charity feature is what lead Apple to take down the app in the first place? Barinov holds that the company said over the phonethat the app violated the following points of the iPhone Developer TOS. Apple confirmed the first point but not the second in a statement to the New York Times. In any case it seems strangely ironic that iPhone apps which allow you to donate to charity must be free.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/12/22/wikileaks-2/