By the way... Dan, I love your apps and you can user stat me all you want... :)
On Nov 16, 2:28 pm, strazzere <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 16, 4:24 pm, AlexK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 9:55 pm, strazzere <[email protected]> wrote: > > Measures: > > - always sign application by digital signature; > > - distribute only over verified channels; > > - try to use obfuscation; > > - use server side activation. > > This hasn't protected any applications released yet, it just seems to > provide developers some time to brush up on third party tools that > tend to break applications :) > > Though I will note that server side activation can help - and your > best method would actually to just adopt a pay for service, not pay > for application mentality. By reserving your application data on the > server your preventing the first step towards piracy... > > > Levels of piracy threat and maybe for example, auto-level reducing in > > specified period of time, will help. I mean if reported 5 or more > > piracy installs, then in half of year we do not track any problems > > with device, then we will reduce device level from red to brown. > > (hierarchy is: green, yellow, brown, red) > > Not a bad solution, but it still keeps you open to random IMEI spam to > your black listing method. -- 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

