If you are not following Google's advice and blindly copy/paste the LVL code from the sample app, you deserve that a tool cracks your app. Not you, Kevin. No way any tool would crack my app (and incidentally, I do the same as you do -- redirect the user to the Android Market)
On May 13, 2:40 pm, Kevin TeslaCoil Software <ke...@teslacoilsw.com> wrote: > I mostly agree with the blog post but some additional thoughts: > > 1) Google just opened up paid apps in more countries. There's > potential to turn current pirates into legit users. However if they're > already used to downloading your app from the pirate sites then even > after you release an update they might not even both getting it from > the Market. Unless they can't get it from the pirate sites right away. > > 2) In my experience, the way Android piracy works is that people get > APKs using the 15 minute period, then they run the APK through the > easily available LVL removing tool, then they post the APK. They're > doing this so frequently and so fast that they DON'T EVEN TEST THE APK > before posting. My app used to crash within 10 seconds of launch due > to something happening in the LVL removing tool. I had tested the tool > before publish and knew about this, but figured hey that means people > won't use the tool. Now I know better, such a setup means getting a > whole lot of emails from users complaining that it crashes as soon as > they open it. So instead I do a really simple check to see if the LVL > removing tool was used and if so I finish the activity and launch the > Market. By hand a person could find and remove this check easily, but > now when people blindly run the tool at least I won't get emails > complaining about crashes. > > My point is that in order to make it inconvenient to pirate, you need > your LVL to sneak past the tool. Worrying about a human cracking your > app is less of an issue as by the time one does that the app has > likely been out for a while and you have an update almost ready. But > if the tool works then it can be on all the pirate sites nearly > instantly after you release an update. > > -Kevin > > On May 12, 2:34 am, Zsolt Vasvari <zvasv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > >http://jeff-vogel.blogspot.com/2011/05/final-answer-for-what-to-do-to... > > > I totally agree with that blog post. I believe the vast majority of > > users, at least for non-trivial apps, resort to piracy not because > > they are too cheap to pay for it, but because the app is not available > > in the country they live in and have no choice but to pirate. > > > This is exactly the same reason why a lot of people download new-run > > TV shows using torrents. It has nothing to with being too cheap to > > pay a buck for a show, but the simple fact is that they are not given > > an option. Hulu is not available outside of the US and the 6-12 month > > delay is unacceptable to a lot of people. But I digress... > > > I believe when the Android Market is finally made available in those > > additional 99 (really?) countries, things will improve.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- 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
