I think apps which operate in a SAAS fashion stand the best chance
against piracy. Unfortunately, the current terms of the Android Market
make it difficult, if not impossible to do this sort of thing. Web-
apps have the obvious benefit in these cases as they can house the
bulk of their
One instance of application security I've seen was bluetooth file
sharing application.
I believe it read where it's location was, and if it's wasn't
installed to /data/app-private then it called you a pirate and exited
the program. Though this was easily circumvented by a simple push to /
As far as I know about, Android Market software is not yet pirated(Correct
me if I am wrong).
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:07 PM, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote:
One instance of application security I've seen was bluetooth file
sharing application.
I believe it read where it's location was,
Sorry, do you mean the actual Android Market itself? The
applications Vending.apk?
It's been put on plenty of ROMS... Remember the CD Cyanogen
received... For just this thing?
I'm not 100% sure if this qualified as piracy but it does fall under
the incorrect distribution...
Besides, the
Yes, I am talking about the same!. Well! Google should be providing with
some anti-piracy as Microsoft is!
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 5:15 PM, strazzere str...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry, do you mean the actual Android Market itself? The
applications Vending.apk?
It's been put on plenty of ROMS...
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The only form of anti-piracy that has any real chance of working for a
popular app is SaaS (Software as a Service). If the app can run
entirely on the phone then the app can be pirated.
Now some may say, Well MyHelloWorld hasn't been pirated! but that's
only because it hasn't reached the
It's possible I don't fully understand your technique, but I think it
will likely cost more sales then it will generate. If it gets a
significant following of apps it will be cracked (a simple solution I
can see would be to simply reroute web requests for the black list to
a pirates site which
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