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Nine Inch Nails App Rejected By Apple

In some ways it makes no sense. Apple’s App Store has rejected an app from Nine Inch Nails that allows the download of the band’s song The Downward Spiral, a well-known piece of work, and one the same company happily sells via iTunes.

It’s all about the content, which includes the notorious F word, which would seem to go against the rules for applications.

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Unsurprisingly, Trent Reznor, the man who really is NiN, wasn’t happy, although he remains an ardent fan of the iPhone. In the NiN forum he wrote:

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"How does that make sense? You can buy ‘The Downward ****ing Spiral’ on iTunes, but you can’t allow an iPhone app that may have a song with a bad word somewhere in it."

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