I'm not a lawyer... But Google has absolutely no right to try to litigate on your behalf. They can't file criminal charges, they would have to file civil charges, but to file a civil charge, the defendant has to be wronged in some way. I understand they could try "We've been wronged by you damaging the community in general", but thats shaky ground, its far easier for an individual to prove they've been wronged when that person has actually violated your copyright...
Filing a civil suit in small claims court (and lets be honest, with the size of the android market, you're not looking at anything larger than small claims court), its like 50$ at your local court to file a suit, and if you win, you'll get that money back. If you're seriously concerned about the issue, take a stance and file some complaints, don't just say "Google, why aren't you doing anything?"... A possible example: If you grew fruits, and got a booth at a farmers market, and someone walked up and stole an apple. You wouldn't ask the farmers market to fix it for you, you'd either have to run after the guy, and get the apple back yourself, or sit quietly. - Dan On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Anson Mackeracher <amack...@gmail.com>wrote: > > This is absolutely Google's problem... Do you think individual > developers have the resources to combat piracy? If Google doesn't look > after their development community, that community won't persist for > very long. > > On Oct 13, 1:11 pm, Dan Sherman <impact...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just pointing out, I don't think it's necessarily Google's problem. It > > would be on the individual developer level (or on behalf of a group of > > developers). Google doesn't own the licenses to applications that site > is > > distributing, individual developers do... > > > > - Dan > > > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Andrei <gml...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > There is a Chinese web site where u can download packages for paid > > > apps > > >http://www.91android.com/bbs/attachmentList.php?action=search > > > Can Google do something about this? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
