Hi Jeffrey, I'm glad you had a good time reading the story ... on the bright side, at least we got the description of the game translated to chinese for free! :-D But honestly, I don't understand why Google doesn't check at least for duplicate files.... i'ts so easy that's it's negligent.
On Tuesday, January 15, 2013 6:47:07 PM UTC-3, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > I kind of found this amusing in a morbid sort of way (but I do feel > bad for the folks who built the real application). From the blog > posting: > > It is really irritating to see how easily the pirate could upload our > game using his own account. It would be trivial for Google to > include some simple checks in their system: > > * The name is almost the same: Ninja Joe VS > Ninja Joe Super (the pirate version). > > * The domain is almost the same: > com.amnesiagames.ninjajoe.velociraptors VS > com.amnesiagames.ninjajoe.velociraptors.apps > (the pirate version). > > * The screenshots ARE THE SAME. Is it so difficult to check > if the same image is already uploaded for another game???!!!! > > * The apk files are the same. This is REALLY annoying. This is an > obvious check. (we uploaded a new version since, the pirate still > hasn’t “updated” his version). > > * The website of the developer is not working. ARE you checking > anything at all??? > > * The same pirate uploaded other 72 pirated versions of other games. > Ok, some behavior checking wouldn’t be bad either, don’t you > think? > > Jeff > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Alejandro Woywood <[email protected] <javascript:>> > Date: Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 3:53 PM > Subject: [android-security-discuss] Copycats and pirate alternative > android stores > To: [email protected] <javascript:> > > Hi, I'm new to this group. We recently published a game "Ninja Joe" > and it was pirated in several sites. Ok, we expected that. Actually > that's why we released the ad-version first. > But now we are detecting pirates that are uploading a pirate version > of our game to Android Stores (for instance: > http://www.anzhi.com/soft_582840.html) and .... even to Google Play! > How we protect ourselves from that???!!!! > > You can read about the whole issue here: > http://www.amnesiagames.cl/blog/2013/01/android-piracy-is-insane/ > > I think Google is doing a really bad job when accepting ANY > submission, they could EASILY check if the apk or screenshots are > already published in the store. They are hurting themselves. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Security Discussions" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/android-security-discuss/-/LjPg0JRYaj4J. 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-security-discuss?hl=en.
