I'm the user of eric's app that helped him test the copy-protection on the Sprint Hero Market. First wanted to thank eric again for choosing to turn off copy-protection so that as a paying user I continue receiving the updates/support I should be and allowing other potential users to discover the app.
Just one thing I wanted to add to this discussion...although I don't have an app in the Market...I feel that there is a portion of users that pirate apps no matter what (sometimes for monetary reasons or whatever it may be) and then there are others who pirate apps because they are forced to do so due to DRM and other related issues. Once this issue hit, I noticed several honest paying customers of several Android apps (based on forum posts and private messages to me) look for and start reverting to pirate sites to get access to the apps they have already paid for. Now they've done this they also not only download the apps they purchased but can easily branch into using the pirated source for future apps too. In the end that's a lost customer for Android developers. So in the end, I don't think there's anything you can do to avoid having your app pirated, it happens on every platform I'm aware of. What you can do is limit or avoid forcing people to pirate your software because you don't provide them an easy, hassle free (and DRM free) venue to get it legitimately. Maybe I'm just naive. :-) On Nov 20, 9:10 pm, eric <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't know if this will make you feel better or worse but my app is > copy-protected and is *easily* findable on filesharing sites. > > I'm gonna flip off the copy-protection (after some testing). > > I want the app to be available to anyone who is willing to purchase it > more than I want to prevent people from stealing it. Why should > paying customers be the ones who are penalized? > > On Nov 20, 8:46 pm, Greg Donald <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:04 PM, eric <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I confirmed last night that enabling copy-protection on my app hides > > > it from the market for sprint hero users. > > > Great. So if I unprotect my apps so people can once again see them to > > buy them, they will get pirated and sales will plummet again. > > > What to do, what to do.. > > > -- > > Greg Donaldhttp://destiney.com/ -- 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
