I certainly care, but I find myself as an individual or even as a part of this community to be underpowered to fight this.
I tend to look at it as I did with the RIAA fighting every individual pirating music. The RIAA spent a decade or more, and ridiculous sums of money, to fight in the legal system to stop people from downloading music illegally. Sure, they won some high profile cases and shut down some of those very highly visible hubs. But they didn't stop piracy completely. What really changed things was when Apple came along and made buying music effortless and affordable with iTunes. Jumping through the hoops of trying to pirate music just isn't worth the hassle now that you can buy your favorite song for $0.99 without even thinking about it. I think the combination of these things needs to be brought to our fight. Maybe if Google was making the act of buying these apps effortless (better payment system, available worldwide) while at the same time shutting down these major hubs, we'd have similar results as we've seen over the last decade with the music industry. To some extent, there's not a lot we as individuals can do. Google needs to step up and protect our rights and their market by throwing their weight behind it in a courtroom. Until that happens, all we have are our own methods of copy protection which have proven to be rather insufficient. -- Chris Stewart http://chriswstewart.com Fantasy Football<http://chriswstewart.com/android-applications/fantasy-football/>- Android app for MFL fantasy football owners On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:06 PM, Maps.Huge.Info (Maps API Guru) < [email protected]> wrote: > > True, but the second and third options could set you up for a lawsuit. > > That would be rich. A pirate suing for such a thing... They would have > to reveal who they really are and that would probably open themselves > up for more trouble than it would be worth. > > -John Coryat > > -- > 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]<android-developers%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > -- 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
