Honestly I think you guys are spending way too much time and energy on this thing.
Here are the facts: FACT: Piracy is a part of life, you will never stop it, ever. FACT: On the first page of this thread someone mentioned that we are now in 2009 where every major application has online activation (windows, photoshop, corel draw, etc) except that every single app on that list is easily pirated! No exceptions! FACT: All those people who pirated your app... probably weren't gonna buy it. FACT: It will take a very short amount of time for a dedicated pirate to bypass the copy protection scheme you talk about above. Probably by spoofing the result from the network. FACT: If you start this war with pirates you will a) be wasting a lot of time and money, b) lose, c) hurt real consumers who by some cruel twist of fate got their IMEI blacklisted. I am a developer myself working on my first paid app, and yes it concerns me that people might pirate it, but I will still NEVER include DRM because it doesn't work. There is no evidence to support the idea that the people who are pirating your app would actually buy it if they couldn't pirate it. I'm so sick of devs taking wasting their time trying to stop an impossible force, when they could be using that time to make their app better. WE ARE NOT SELLING APPS TO PIRATES, WE ARE SELLING TO HONEST CONSUMERS, WORRY ABOUT THEM! THEY ARE THE IMPORTANT ONES! My name is Geoff Hackett, I'm a developer, and I think DRM, in all its forms, SUCKS! Ok that's my rant for the day. On Nov 19, 10:36 am, Paul Turchenko <paul.turche...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think that's intended for companies that develop software... > > On Nov 19, 4:01 pm, Kaj Bjurman <kaj.bjur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Do they really expect people to manually report each phone? > > > On 19 Nov, 12:09, Paul Turchenko <paul.turche...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Guess they are gathering data from different application vendors. As > > > far as I can tell, they will tell that device is 100% blacklisted only > > > if 2 of 3 application vendors have reported that particular IMEI has > > > pirated application installed. Look > > > here:http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/try/reportPirate.aspx-reportform.http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/antipiracy.aspx-codeintegration. > > > > As a developer, I will definitely integrate their protection system in > > > my application and WILL deny activation if IMEI is in the black list. > > > > On Nov 18, 10:43 pm, "admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com" > > > > <admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > AlexK - you didn't mention where you get your data for the blacklist. > > > > > I am guessing its based on pirated copies of your app. How are you > > > > determining which users have illegal copies? -- 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
