I am not a developer but as a user and lover of my google phone and many apps I would suggest that anyone who goes through the time and effort to obtain a cracked app over an app they can buy for only a couple bucks is either a kid, with no access to an account to make a proper purchase or someone who wouldn't buy the app no matter what it cost. They are probably sluurping back a $5.00 starbucks coffee with a phone full of cracked apps... In this case there isn't too much to be done, money spent on lawyers and implementing DRM is going to be wasted as these apps will be cracked eventually anyway. Getting new apps to market seems like a better investment of time and energy to me. But once again, I am not a developer. I would simply make a note of your website on the app with a link to support docs and a donation button, you can always post other options for people to buy the apps on yoru site as listed above... Who knows, it may be idealistic but you may get some people like myself who actually pay a bit more for apps they use regularly and see development on!
Either way, good luck and KEEP DEVELOPING! On Sep 2, 7:55 pm, Jeff <[email protected]> wrote: > If your app is on that web site, you can contact the file hosting > services they link to and in most cases they will quickly remove the > file. But unfortunately, I seem to be contacting these services every > week. I forwarded that web site to Xavier (Google Engineer) to see if > they can at least remove the web site from Google Search results > (yesterday). No response yet. > > Just to reiterate, piracy on Android is entirely too easy since a non- > rooted device can download a pirated app. At least in the iPhone > case, both phones must be jailbreaked. > > I'm also holding off on publishing additional apps. I'm hoping the > rumored Android Market update has some better piracy protection. > > On Sep 2, 3:15 pm, terryowen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Sep 2, 4:49 pm, mscwd01 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > The obvious solution would be to offer the app as free and then charge > > > users to activate the app by paying you directly, but i'm guessing > > > Google wouldn't allow that. > > > > The only solution is this: > > > > All apps when purchased are somehow modified to only run on the phone > > > which purchased it. All phones have a unique ID so this shouldn't be > > > an issue. > > > This would require the apk to be modified by Google at purchase so the > > > apk knew only to function on the phone requesting the purchase. > > > Then if the person who downloaded it felt he wanted to offer it as > > > free, it would be pointless as it' only work on their phone. > > > > Seems a logical way to prevent piracy of apps, am I overlooking > > > something obvious? > > > > On Sep 2, 9:33 pm, Shane Isbell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > If you have doubts about the harmful effects of piracy, you should watch > > > > this youtube > > > > video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32wmepTVM3I&feature=channel > > > > > -- > > > > Shane Isbell (Co-founder of SlideME > > > > LLC)http://twitter.com/sisbellhttp://twitter.com/slideme > > > I think pirates would probably find away around it. But regular > > consumers would be at risk when it came to hardware failures and > > developers going out of business. > > > And what about people who upgrade their phones? Would those purchases > > transfer? I'd only purchase something keyed to the phone if a lot of > > questions were answered first. And to be honest, I'd probably stop > > buying apps because what guarantee would I have that an individual > > developer wouldn't quit, leaving customers without access to apps > > they'd paid for? > > > I have ebooks I bought a dozen devices ago. If they had been keyed to > > the device I would have lost them. In fact, I made the mistake of > > purchasing a few pdf files many years ago that had something like that > > and not only did the company fold, the DRM didn't work properly even > > on the same computer and I had no recourse. > > > I don't doubt that piracy hurts developers (and consumers in the long > > run) but more restrictive DRM isn't the solution. > > > Terry- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
