I got a question for you guys. Assuming you know how and have the means to set up a server.. why can't you have your app send a "code" or something to this server.. to verify its a valid copy. If the copy that is out on those hosting sites has the same code.. you can at least have your app hit the server and if the code provided is ALREADY registered.. send back a "nope.. you are not allowed" code. Have your app indicate this message to the user, and the user can contact you if need be, but explain that someone else already registered with this code so you're code is invalid indicating a pirated version. Is this not allowed? I mean, if you specify internet permissions, you are basically getting the OK from the user to use the internet. It would hamper your app to require internet at least the first time it's run tho.
Is there any help from google in the way of being able to figure out whose purchased your app off the market? I mean, if you get 500 sells on the market, but have 7000 hits to your server.. there is something wrong. What about knowing if your app was installed from the market, or from the SD card? Any chance of knowing that? Is there any steps during installation we developers can take to figure out if it was installed from market or not? That may help us ensure that our app is only functional if installed from the market. I imagine that that pirated sites may have people who reverse-engineer the app and defeat this.. but not sure they go to that extent.. yet. On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, MakeMobile < makemobileinnovati...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jan 16, 1:08 pm, Wayne Wenthin <wa...@fuligin.com> wrote: > > My question is why would google do anything. These are your apps. You > hold > > copyright not google. You have to do something. Unless you are finding > > Market or Maps on these sites google could care less and rightly so. > > I believe I've already answered the question of why Google would do > something about this, but I'll say it again. Piracy damages the > platform as a whole. Google cares about this kind of thing because it > slows the progress of the platform as a whole. That's why they > released the Nexus One -- to advance the platform by gaining new > developers and users. > > I'd be surprised if Google did not have people working on this. But my > specific inquiry is who can I talk to about this? who or where do I > report this? And if it does not yet exist, Google should definitely > set up a system for reporting these abuses. > > On another note, I think the common attitude of apathy surrounding > this issue is shocking. I am fully aware that it's not possible within > reason to completely eliminate this problem -- and I do not expect > that. However that does not mean we should ignore the issue on the > premise that its "too difficult" a problem to deal with. > > This is especially problematic for small time developers who don't > have the resources (time or financial) to do much about this. I > believe it's these small time developers who provide the most value to > the platform -- there are far more small time developers than large > organizations, and I believe they provide the bulk of the innovation. > So lack of a robust support system for these developers is a big > problem. > > I'd like to steer the discussion in a more positive direction. So lets > go guys -- resources, information, options... > > -- > 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<android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en >
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