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Who Wants to Pay $40 for a Nirvana Biography iPhone App Plagiarized from Wikipedia?

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You’ve gotta admire the brazenness of this developer’s balls. Offering “a brief, yet throughout [sic] introduction about Nirvana – the legendary rock band of US,” the Nirvana: The Complete Biography iPhone app costs $40—and features copied-and-pasted Wikipedia content.

Nevermind the fact that Wikipedia has a free iPhone app, or that you can just as easily find Wikipedia’s mobile site on Safari, developer “Idev” has seemingly forgotten one of the reasons Kurt Cobain (supposedly) killed himself: because he’d grown so dismayed with the greed, capitalism and pressures of the music industry. [iTunes via Mobile-Ent]

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