An official response would great. As I (and many others) see it the main reason for Android app piracy is paid app unavailability in most countries. When most users have the option of being honest and pay, most would. Until Google enables the full Market in all countries the incitement to crack and distribute apps remains.
When LVL was announced I played with it a bit to see how easy it was to crack. The fact is; it's much easier than the article on AndroidPolice shows. No need to analyze switch statements etc. There is a much better place to modify the disassembled code that makes it trivial to implement a generic patcher using available open source tools and shell scripts. As to where in the (potentially obfuscated code) I refer to I leave that as an exercise for the crackers. Google surely knew all this even before LVL was announced... The official response, or lack thereof, will be interesting. On Aug 23, 11:50 pm, Brad <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, just as I was finishing adding LVL support to my apps, I come > across this article: > > http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/08/23/exclusive-report-googles-andr... > > Of course we all knew that this new copy protection could be broken > (as is the case for all DRM), but I guess I had hoped that it would > take a little more effort. Looks like this will turn out to be a > "one-click" crack. > > Will Google up the ante? Is it a lost cause on such an open platform? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" 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-developers?hl=en
