"The item you've requested is no longer available."

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Delete BoxOffice
2. Go to App Store, try to get
3. view error: "The item you've requested is no longer available."

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Even viewing the BoxOffice "page" at the App Store produces the above message, 
any further 
action is forestalled.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
I'm afraid I deleted it, so I cannot check the version. The precipitating event 
was an announced 
update on 7/31. The update did not process, so I deleted the old one and tried 
redownloading it.

Please provide any additional information below.

 Thanks for a great App, hope to use it again, when this gets sorted.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by josalofi...@gmail.com on 31 Jul 2008 at 7:50

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Box Office is one of the best apps available, or at least it was...when it was, 
you 
know, available.  I inadvertantly deleted it while "syncing" my apps (no idea 
how 
that happened).  Any idea when it'll be back?  It was truly a magnificent piece 
of 
work.

Original comment by samhank...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2008 at 4:11

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I had problems loading it and decided to delete it and reinstall it again.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to search for it anywhere.
I miss it!  Please please please.. I would love to have it back.

Original comment by nalb...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2008 at 4:36

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I'm looking into seeing why BoxOffice was pulled from the appstore.

Original comment by cyrus.na...@gmail.com on 2 Aug 2008 at 3:18

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Isn't open source and your GNU licensing a violation of Apple's SDK...?  That's 
my bet on why you were yanked 
from iTunes.

Original comment by distorte...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2008 at 4:42

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By that token, shouldn't WeDict and Wordpress be pulled? I'd like to see Apple 
pull Wordpress out and 
watch the public backlash.

Original comment by jason...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2008 at 8:58

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@jasonjei - is the source code for WeDict and/or WordPress' iPhone versions 
publicly available and published 
under GPL or other open licenses?  If not, no, they wouldn't be banned by 
Apple.  If yes, and my belief that 
this is the issue for some of the apps disappearing is true, then Apple will 
eventually ban them if they don't 
change their policy.

It's all about the NDA and SDK licensing.  I'm pretty sure the SDK licensing 
and App Store agreement forbid 
making the program or code available anywhere else.  App developers aren't even 
allowed to talk amongst 
themselves about how to optimize their code according to many news sources.  If 
they can't talk about it, then 
surely having it on a site like Google or Sourceforge available for anyone to 
download and contribute to the 
project is an issue for Apple.

I'm just speculating, I have no real knowledge of why Apple is killing some 
seemingly innocuous apps.

Original comment by distorte...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2008 at 9:55

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This bug report is not the appropriate place for this discussion.  If you want 
to discuss the GPL, or make 
hypothetical guesses as to why Apple pulled the app, please do so elsewhere.  
Thanks very much.

I'm not going to delete any comments made before now.  But i will delete any 
that follow that offtopic.

Original comment by cyrus.na...@gmail.com on 4 Aug 2008 at 9:58

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Any further updates on getting your app restored?

Original comment by youn...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2008 at 1:33

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The app has been returned to the store

Original comment by cyrus.na...@gmail.com on 14 Aug 2008 at 2:18

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