Why is Apple censoring the word 'jailbreak' from iTunes?

Apple has banned the word 'jailbreak' from it's U.S. iTunes store listings, the latest indication of its disapproval of hackers who muck around with their tightly secured products.

'Jailbreaking' refers to the practice of hacking into Apple's products to allow them to play pirated software and media and, in the case of the iPhone and iPad, to be used on different mobile networks.

Now it seems that the company will not even countenance the word's mention on their site, with songs like Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak now listed in some places as J*******k. Apple's filtering of the term from song and software titles puts the word in the same category as 'b******t' and other obscene language.