On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > > If your app is on that web site, you can contact the file hosting > services they link to and in most cases they will quickly remove the > file. But unfortunately, I seem to be contacting these services every > week. I forwarded that web site to Xavier (Google Engineer) to see if > they can at least remove the web site from Google Search results > (yesterday). No response yet. > > Just to reiterate, piracy on Android is entirely too easy since a non- > rooted device can download a pirated app. At least in the iPhone > case, both phones must be jailbreaked. > > I'm also holding off on publishing additional apps. I'm hoping the > rumored Android Market update has some better piracy protection. > Eventually, if the operators and Google want more content from large content providers, Google will have to tighten up the DRM. A similar thing happened when J2ME started. DRM is expensive (and patent encumbered) and operators didn't want to deal with it at first. Large providers withholding content (and revenue) changes the financial incentive to do so. A large number of small developers withholding content could have the same affect (I'm not advocating this).
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