A while back Alias|Wavefront (now AutoDesk) tried the licensing server thing. If I'm not mistaken they even had a hardware token required to run their application and it still got cracked. That's an application that retails for $2000 a box, and they couldn't secure their software with a ridiculous amount of DRM. It's unlikely that a $5 phone app is going to do a much better job of things.
That being said, I am not very familiar with licensing server DRM techniques (they aren't very common) so I can't speak specifically to the difficulty with cracking them. None the less, it still stands that you likely won't increase your customer base with solutions like this because people don't like it when their software has to phone- home to run. What happens if you go out of business and the licensing server goes down? What happens if I don't have network access? etc. On Jul 22, 8:04 am, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/7/23 Micah <mi...@ourmailbox.net> > > > > > The pirates will either strip out the licensing requests from the > > application or they will spoof a licensing server. Meanwhile, your > > legitimate users can't use your application when they don't have > > access to the licensing server (it's down, they don't have internet > > access, etc.). > > This is where things like the obfusticated code contest to help people hide > things in plain sight, as for spoofing a licensing server bit hard to spoof > things if they do things with a decent helping of RSA. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
