Looks like these guys: http://www.androidplayground.net charge for pirated apps. Guess it's all passed the playful hacker stage to going criminal now.
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:16 AM, DataSpa <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am not a developer but as a user and lover of my google phone and > many apps I would suggest that anyone who goes through the time and > effort to obtain a cracked app over an app they can buy for only a > couple bucks is either a kid, with no access to an account to make a > proper purchase or someone who wouldn't buy the app no matter what it > cost. They are probably sluurping back a $5.00 starbucks coffee with a > phone full of cracked apps... In this case there isn't too much to be > done, money spent on lawyers and implementing DRM is going to be > wasted as these apps will be cracked eventually anyway. Getting new > apps to market seems like a better investment of time and energy to > me. But once again, I am not a developer. I would simply make a note > of your website on the app with a link to support docs and a donation > button, you can always post other options for people to buy the apps > on yoru site as listed above... Who knows, it may be idealistic but > you may get some people like myself who actually pay a bit more for > apps they use regularly and see development on! > > Either way, good luck and KEEP DEVELOPING! > > On Sep 2, 7:55 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. > > > > On Sep 2, 3:15 pm, terryowen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > -- Shane Isbell (Co-founder of SlideME - The Original Market for Android) http://twitter.com/sisbell http://twitter.com/slideme --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
