I too would like to know if Google in particular is doing anything to help us developers out. As apps grow in popularity the more they are pirated and the harder to get them all taken down. Ideally there would be a spot for developers to submit pages that are hosting our apps illegally and Google would take care of the DMCA stuff. (Or just provide us with copy protection that works...)
For those interested here is another site I found yesterday, http://www.mediafire.com/thakidtok http://twitter.com/thakidtook uses twitter to distribute them too. This is really a pain in the ass. Does apple have piracy issues like this on the iPhone? -theSmith On Jan 16, 12:09 pm, MakeMobile <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been in "the business" for quite some time, and I know that > drill. But I do not accept your reply as a useful response to this > problem. This problem is damaging to the entire development community > as a whole as well as the forward progress of the platform. Few > developers will be interested in building on a platform which has a > reputation for easy piracy. Their development efforts will be focused > on other platforms, and Android will suffer from less innovation and > fewer useful apps. > > I've also found piracy on other sites, including droidfanz.com, and > this forum:http://www.ipmart-forum.com/archive/index.php/t-337082.html > > I'd like to know what Google is doing about this, and who to forward > abuse complaints to. > > On Jan 16, 11:33 am, schwiz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > shut one down 3 more pop up, its an unavoidable part of software > > development. > > > On Jan 16, 10:13 am, MakeMobile <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > I stumbled upon this site offering 1000's of Android apps for free > > > (including mine!). > > > >http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/ap6z0/redditapps_a_1000_list... > > > > How do I report this to Google? How do we shut them down?
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