Thanks for your thoughts. It looks like I would need to list my app on those alternative markets, and the copy protection would only work on apps distributed by them. I'm at the very early stages of design, so I guess I'll sleep on it a bit more first. Thanks.
On Dec 23, 4:43 am, Sean Hodges <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM, cyxb <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm working on adding a web-based feature to my paid app. I don't > > want users who are using pirated copies to access this new web > > feature, since I don't want to pay for their bandwidth usage...and > > also because I think piracy is wrong! I've thought of a solution that > > just might work, but it would involve users who want to access this > > feature to submit their Google Checkout-generated order number for > > validation the first time they try to access the new feature. After > > they have been validated, the app will not ask them to validate again. > > I suggest you have a read of this > first:http://www.androidguys.com/2009/12/22/rethinking-android-app-piracy/. > You need to be sure that tackling the piracy of your app will have a > significantly positive impact on your sales and bandwidth usage, > before diverting your time from more productive development. > > > Technical details aside, my main concern is that having the user enter > > their order # will be too tedious on their part. Has anyone gone down > > this route before? Thoughts? > > By the sound of it, you are hoping to use the Google Checkout order > number as a method of licencing your software to the user, there are > other licencing options, such as the AndAppStore licencing system > (http://andappstore.com/AndroidApplications/licensing.jsp) and > SlideLock (http://slideme.org/slidelock). Introducing any kind of > entry barrier to the user will definitely have an impact on it's > usability, but if you are suffering from a significant loss of revenue > through piracy then this entry barrier may be necessary. You might > want to trial this approach for say a month, and compare your > sales/return rate (and bandwidth usage) before and after the change. -- 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.
