On Jan 16, 1:08 pm, Wayne Wenthin <wa...@fuligin.com> wrote: > My question is why would google do anything. These are your apps. You hold > copyright not google. You have to do something. Unless you are finding > Market or Maps on these sites google could care less and rightly so.
I believe I've already answered the question of why Google would do something about this, but I'll say it again. Piracy damages the platform as a whole. Google cares about this kind of thing because it slows the progress of the platform as a whole. That's why they released the Nexus One -- to advance the platform by gaining new developers and users. I'd be surprised if Google did not have people working on this. But my specific inquiry is who can I talk to about this? who or where do I report this? And if it does not yet exist, Google should definitely set up a system for reporting these abuses. On another note, I think the common attitude of apathy surrounding this issue is shocking. I am fully aware that it's not possible within reason to completely eliminate this problem -- and I do not expect that. However that does not mean we should ignore the issue on the premise that its "too difficult" a problem to deal with. This is especially problematic for small time developers who don't have the resources (time or financial) to do much about this. I believe it's these small time developers who provide the most value to the platform -- there are far more small time developers than large organizations, and I believe they provide the bulk of the innovation. So lack of a robust support system for these developers is a big problem. I'd like to steer the discussion in a more positive direction. So lets go guys -- resources, information, options...
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