Most people aren't going to share their google account with someone else just so they can get a $3 app for free. Who is realistically going to give out access to:
A) Their email C) Their credit card or payment method for Android market. You lend your account to someone for a $3 app and suddenly they are buying stuff as you. The bottom line is that piracy can never be stopped. People can open up the .apk and fiddle the .dex files and get an unprotected app. There's no stopping that. The point is with LVL that normal people (probably 95%+) of the market don't have a rooted phone. They have a stock Market app. It used to be that one hacker with a rooted phone could distribute .apk files that install perfectly on all non-rooted phones without difficulty. Now every .apk file will have to be cracked first, for every update. There is no true security, there is only added difficulty for pirates. You must weigh the benefits of users getting annoyed that the app they bought stopped working after they had to get their faulty phone replaced several times from their carrier vs. some users all managing to share the same google account on their phones. I feel that waging war on your actual nice customers even just a little bit is way worse than letting pirates do what they probably would find a way to do anyways. -E On Jul 30, 3:13 pm, sblantipodi <perini.dav...@dpsoftware.org> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm implementing LVL... > > I noticed that google recommends to not use devicelimiter, > but what are the meaning of licensing if you not use devicelimiter? > > Probably I missunderstood something but without device limiter piracy > is easyer than before... > Suppose that I bought XXX software using an ACME account created for > this purpose, than I share username and password of this account to > let others pirating the XX software. > > What is that I missunderstood ? > It can't be so easy... -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
