You know the piracy rate of MyBackup and CoPilot are probably much higher than 4:1 right?
I'm not sure where your get your statistics from, but while you notice apk files are easy to fine - amoung the easier are those exact apps that you think have a good level of security. The point is they have *good* applications people are willing to pay for, and a "level" of protection, yet people *still* can get there applications just as easily as yours. -Tim Strazzere On Nov 17, 12:20 pm, "admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com" <admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > No anti-piracy system is perfect. Thats why I said 100% protection was > unachievable. > > What I am saying is we need some way to get over the hump of 0% > protection. Even if we just had a shared system where we had the level > of protection of apps, e.g. MyBackup and CoPilot currently have, then > at least we are moving in the right direction. > > There's a lot of posts on this subject because its something that > bothers a lot of application developers. If you're happy to find your > app every day on rapidshare, thats your decision, but if a big enough > group of us want to do pool our resources to reduce piracy, then thats > our decision too. > > Current estimated ratio is 4 pirated copies to 1 purchased copy. If we > could reduce this to even 3:1 or 2:1, that would be a very worthwhile > investment of everyone's time. -- 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
