On Nov 19, 6:10 pm, G <[email protected]> wrote: > Honestly I think you guys are spending way too much time and energy on > this thing.
Less talks, more actions... Critics that authors place here helps a lot, but in most cases are covered by our team "brainstorming". Solution will become better if we find support of it. Anti-piracy for today will cost you several hours spent on integration and nothing more. > Here are the facts: > FACT: Piracy is a part of life, you will never stop it, ever. > FACT: On the first page of this thread someone mentioned that we are > now in 2009 where every major application has online activation > (windows, photoshop, corel draw, etc) except that every single app on > that list is easily pirated! No exceptions! > FACT: All those people who pirated your app... probably weren't gonna > buy it. > FACT: It will take a very short amount of time for a dedicated pirate > to bypass the copy protection scheme you talk about above. Probably by > spoofing the result from the network. > FACT: If you start this war with pirates you will a) be wasting a lot > of time and money, b) lose, c) hurt real consumers who by some cruel > twist of fate got their IMEI blacklisted. Good facts but wrong conclusions. I don't want to win it (it impossible), I personally want to reduce percent of pirated copies and maybe convert some percent of pirates into buyers. Black list is only stimulation for them. > I am a developer myself working on my first paid app, and yes it > concerns me that people might pirate it, but I will still NEVER > include DRM because it doesn't work. There is no evidence to support > the idea that the people who are pirating your app would actually buy > it if they couldn't pirate it. I'm so sick of devs taking wasting > their time trying to stop an impossible force, when they could be > using that time to make their app better. WE ARE NOT SELLING APPS TO > PIRATES, WE ARE SELLING TO HONEST CONSUMERS, WORRY ABOUT THEM! THEY > ARE THE IMPORTANT ONES! Exists scheme for mobile devices that guaranty that you application will not be stolen by simple methods. Only decompilation can broke protection. Other methods are useless. Problem is in chain EndCustomer --> Android market client --> Android market server --> Google Checkout --> Vendor. Simple replace of two points: End Customer --> Plimus/PayPal etc. --> Vendor and scheme will work perfectly. > My name is Geoff Hackett, I'm a developer, and I think DRM, in all its > forms, SUCKS! > Ok that's my rant for the day. -- 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
