I think I understand her sentiment.<p>With the adult site I've been working on for a client, we've put things like securing video downloads and preventing password sharing LAST (in fact, we haven't even implemented them yet), in favor of putting all of our energy into making the site and content as excellent as possible.<p>Our thought is that with the site just starting out, piracy and password sharing probably help a lot more than they hurt right now. We've even posted a good number of the scenes up on private torrent sites that have active discussion forums. Eventually we'll secure the downloads (no DRM, though) and prevent password sharing, but only once we can say that we're by far the best provider of our content.
So she's using pirates as an excuse to only release an app for iOS. And with that aim in mind, she had her developers write applications that would "transfer to other systems". That doesn't make sense. At all.
Bjork is a bit confused. Pirates routinely break the copy protection on iOS apps which means that they will be available to install on other, appropriately prepared systems.<p>It's currently reasonably infeasible for pirates to reverse engineer the application, to the extent that they can port it to a completely different OS and architecture.<p>If that's what she wanted accomplished, the least she could do would be to open source the code and assets so that an enterprising Hacker could at least attempt an Android port.
I prefer hir rhetoric of trust and encouragement, an interpretation remixing "not taking things away" into dispolar non-conflict.<p>Also, original page title is "Björk <i>trusts</i> pirates will crack Biophilia", wonder why it got changed to <i>Hopes</i>? Just watching your language..
"She said that she fully expects the new software to become more widely available and end up on less expensive operating systems and devices."<p>She also apparently has no idea how software works.
Pirates are not Magicians, they are Pirates.