Thanks for the answers David. Your post has made this an important issue for me. serge
On Aug 30, 3:57 pm, david <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 30, 5:42 pm,sm1<[email protected]> wrote:> David, > > What are the recent examples of paid apps that have been copied and > > distributed illegally? > > On of the best examples is my favorite Twitter client. They published > a premium version and minutes after the launch the .apk file was > available for download. So they might choose not to continue > development on Android if they based their business model on a paid > version. > > > Is this a growing problem or is it limited to a few cases? > > > Can existing law enforcement or lawyers be used to limit the number of > > cases in the future? > > Did this help for music and video industry? And they have tons of > money too enforce the law, a Android developer might not. > > > > > > > thanks > > serge > > > On Aug 29, 7:55 am, david <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > Anyone of you have experience with paid apps in the Android market? > > > Recent examples have been shown that paid apps can easily be copied > > > and distributed even with copy protection enabled in the market. Is > > > there anything Google has built into the Android OS to prevent this? > > > Is there any SDK call to check wheter for an app has been paid for > > > (check against the market application?) or anything else, so a > > > developer can have the same secure environment like on the iPhone? > > > Otherwise this is a big problem for the whole Android ecosphere as we > > > won't see many high quality apps popping up. > > > > /David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
