First of all one vendor report can not bring user into troubles.
Piracy should confirm at list two or three independent vendors.
Second point - user always can contact us and discuss why his IMEI
placed into database.
Third - user should use legal source for application installation (at
least well known).
On Nov 16, 8:34 pm, "nEx.Software" <email.nex.softw...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Not to mention that just because someone might have pirated some app
> at some time, doesn't mean that they pirated your app.
> That's why it needs to be able to check against Google Checkout or
> whatever payment processor is used...
>
> BTW, how does the developer of a pirated app 1) know that there is a
> user using his app illegally, and 2) know the Personal Information /
> IMEI of that user's device, in order to submit to your database? Also,
> how will you handle false positives, when someone is accused of being
> a pirate wrongly, disputes, etc...?
>
> This just seems like an extremist approach to the problem (yes, I
> agree it is a problem)...
>
> On Nov 16, 11:16 am, "nEx.Software" <email.nex.softw...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Of course, now you have to add Full Internet permission to every app
> > and thus negate any usefulness of this permission for actual use.
> > As if this permission was not already useless enough in telling the
> > user what the app intended to do...
>
> > On Nov 16, 11:13 am, AlexK <kucherenko.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > Source code which you can integrate into own application for checking
> > > black list.
>
> > > /**
> > > * Determines status of device's IMEI.
> > > *
> > > * @return -1 - imei status retrieval failed. 0 - Green status 1 to 3 -
> > > Yellow
> > > * status 3 to 5 - Brown status above 5 - Red status
> > > */
> > > public int getIMEIStatus()
> > > {
> > > // 1. Get device ID
> > > TelephonyManager manager = (TelephonyManager)getSystemService
> > > (Context.TELEPHONY_SERVICE);
> > > String sDeviceID = manager.getDeviceId();
> > > // 2. Fetch for IMEI data.
> > > // Will look like
> > >
> > > //http://www.artfulbits.com/android/antipiracycheck.ashx?IMEI=123456789...
> > > String url = "http://www.artfulbits.com/android/antipiracycheck.ashx?
> > > IMEI="
> > > + sDeviceID;
> > > // Server will return 200 if request post was successful.
> > > final int http_ok = 200;
> > > // Create new http client.
> > > HttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
> > > // Create new http post.
> > > HttpPost post = new HttpPost(url);
> > > // Cache http response.
> > > HttpResponse response = null;
> > > // Will return -1 unless server provides its own value.
> > > int imeiStatus = -1;
> > > try
> > > {
> > > // Executind post.
> > > response = client.execute(post);
> > > // Making sure we've received correct status code.
> > > if(response.getStatusLine().getStatusCode() == http_ok)
> > > {
> > > // Retrieving content stream.
> > > InputStream stream = response.getEntity().getContent();
> > > // Decorating stream with Input stream reader
> > > InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(stream);
> > > // Decorating input stream reader with buffered stream reader.
> > > BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(isr);
> > > // Reading imei status from stream.
> > > imeiStatus = Integer.parseInt(reader.readLine());
> > > // Closing buffered reader will recursively close decorated
> > > input stream
> > > // reader and input stream.
> > > reader.close();
> > > }
> > > }
> > > catch(Exception e)
> > > {
> > > e.printStackTrace();
> > > }
> > > return imeiStatus;
>
> > > }
>
> > > On Nov 16, 7:57 pm, AlexK <kucherenko.a...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > I just did publishing of the web service!
>
> > > > All details can be found here:
>
> > > >http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/antipiracy.aspx
>
> > > > In 5 minutes I'll update database by our latest catched pirate phones.
>
> > > > On Nov 16, 2:19 pm, "admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com"
>
> > > > <admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > > +1
>
> > > > > This keeps coming up but I am bumping because it shouldn't be ignored
> > > > > by Google.
>
> > > > > Problem is people can buy and refund within 24 hours. So we need a web
> > > > > service apps can call where we can send a device ID plus a google
> > > > > checkout number which confirms a valid non-cancelled order. If this
> > > > > web service could be centralised to check other app markets too, we
> > > > > would all be laughing.
>
> > > > > Its not cost effective for a single dev to work out a solution. A team
> > > > > of people should be driving this forwards where they can keep an eye
> > > > > on what the pirates are doing and continue to improve the system as
> > > > > the pirates continue to break it.
>
> > > > > So the question then becomes a monetary one. No one has the motivation
> > > > > to build a system without a monetary incentive. So how about all app
> > > > > devs who are interested in the scheme support the anti-piracy
> > > > > developers by paying a monthly subscription. Most app devs would be
> > > > > happy to do so if they can claw back 100's of pirated copies of their
> > > > > apps.
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