On Sep 2, 4:49 pm, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > The obvious solution would be to offer the app as free and then charge > users to activate the app by paying you directly, but i'm guessing > Google wouldn't allow that. > > The only solution is this: > > All apps when purchased are somehow modified to only run on the phone > which purchased it. All phones have a unique ID so this shouldn't be > an issue. > This would require the apk to be modified by Google at purchase so the > apk knew only to function on the phone requesting the purchase. > Then if the person who downloaded it felt he wanted to offer it as > free, it would be pointless as it' only work on their phone. > > Seems a logical way to prevent piracy of apps, am I overlooking > something obvious? > > On Sep 2, 9:33 pm, Shane Isbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If you have doubts about the harmful effects of piracy, you should watch > > this youtube > > video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I&feature=channel > > > -- > > Shane Isbell (Co-founder of SlideME > > LLC)http://twitter.com/sisbellhttp://twitter.com/slideme
I think pirates would probably find away around it. But regular consumers would be at risk when it came to hardware failures and developers going out of business. And what about people who upgrade their phones? Would those purchases transfer? I'd only purchase something keyed to the phone if a lot of questions were answered first. And to be honest, I'd probably stop buying apps because what guarantee would I have that an individual developer wouldn't quit, leaving customers without access to apps they'd paid for? I have ebooks I bought a dozen devices ago. If they had been keyed to the device I would have lost them. In fact, I made the mistake of purchasing a few pdf files many years ago that had something like that and not only did the company fold, the DRM didn't work properly even on the same computer and I had no recourse. I don't doubt that piracy hurts developers (and consumers in the long run) but more restrictive DRM isn't the solution. Terry --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
