Ian,
I'm in the beginning process of forming a group to fight the Warez sites
and just generally improve the situation for legitimate Android
developers. I've posted a little information about it on my blog...
maybe have a look at it and give me your comments on it.
My thought is that if legit developers formed a group we could
eventually appoint a representative to speak on our behalf AND maybe
someone at Google would actually listen to us. I have formed and been a
member of several such associations in the past, and I can tell you that
something like this is definitely needed.
I've also developed software that flags SPAM commenters, SPAM apps and
SPAM developers, so if we get enough developers behind it, we could
easily identify most of them, and with a little time and patience,
submit the list to Google and get Google to do something about it. The
software is working well, but for now, it's just on my development
machine. I'm in the process right now of deploying the database to the
production server, but I still have to work on the web pages for other
developers to be able to view it.
The site is not live yet, but I have the beginnings of the forum
ready... (a lot of work to do before it's really useful... but... it's
coming).
http://nocrappyapps.com/index.php/forum/4-association-of-android-professionals.html
Let me know if you have any interest in joining it.... We only need
about 25 active members to get it going.
Sincerely,
Brad Gies
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On 05/11/2010 6:14 AM, piemm...@googlemail.com wrote:
Afternoon,
There's another warez site ripping off the paid versions of my apps
from the Google Market(as well as other developers paid apps) - all
the usual ignoring stuff when contacting to remove apps.
I have to accept that some of my apps get pirated(that haven't used
the licensing service& proguard), but What particularly gets my goat
about this site, is that the owner is apparently *charging* for full
access to the ripped off apps!
See: http://www.droidphonefiles.com/Join.html
and a list of ripped apps: http://www.droidphonefiles.com/Apps.html
And the usual market spamm comments attached to such a warez site
promoted by the author (AndroLib is useful here to easily list the
spam user)
http://www.androlib.com/android.comment.author.amy-DEFAq.aspx
Any ideas what I can do? Or does Googles team care about this kind of
activity?
Regards
Ian
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