Except you are allowed (and even, kinda, encouraged) to make your app available in many places.
So how do you distinguish between "I got it from andappstore" or "I got it for free from the developer" (both legit but not market) from "Joe copied it off his phone for me"? On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Steve Barr <barr8...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/27/09, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote: > > DRM in this discussion is a mechanism that allows developers to say "I > > don't want my application to be available on devices from which it can > > be copied". > > Given rooted devices, would it make more sense to look for DRM which > locked an app to a particular device ID (or user ID), no matter what > kind of device it was? It seems like the Market has to keep track of > which device (or perhaps person) downloaded/purchased which apps > already, so the user can download them again if needed. > > I'm no expert on DRM, but it seems to me there are some pieces > available for a different solution to the problem. > > Steve > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---