What you're talking about is the reason that AndAppStore offer a mechanism to lock apps to 'phones or users phone numbers. Copy protection is a technology that has been consigned to the past on many platforms to the extent that even pure digital distribution systems such as Steam (www.steampowered.com) allow you to copy the application & it's data but enforce DRM at runtime. Even the multi-billion dollar movie industry's attempts at copy protection have failed with DVD rippers and Blu-Ray disk copiers easily available via the internet.
My personal view is that whatever is delivered in the way of attempts to prevent copying of APKs will be circumvented somehow, and I would even go so far as suggesting that the currently deployed scheme be pulled and time spent developing and delivering a DRM system which gives developers what they need as opposed to trying to patch up and fix the currently deployed "copy protection" mechanism. Al. P.S. Details of the AndAppStore scheme are at http://andappstore.com/AndroidPhoneApplications/licensing.jsp if you're interested. Steve Barr wrote: > On 2/27/09, Jean-Baptiste Queru <j...@android.com> wrote: > >> DRM in this discussion is a mechanism that allows developers to say "I >> don't want my application to be available on devices from which it can >> be copied". >> > > Given rooted devices, would it make more sense to look for DRM which > locked an app to a particular device ID (or user ID), no matter what > kind of device it was? It seems like the Market has to keep track of > which device (or perhaps person) downloaded/purchased which apps > already, so the user can download them again if needed. > > I'm no expert on DRM, but it seems to me there are some pieces > available for a different solution to the problem. > > Steve > > > > -- * Written an Android App? - List it at http://andappstore.com/ * ====== Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company number 6741909. The registered head office is Kemp House, 152-160 City Road, London, EC1V 2NX, UK. The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
