[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-12-02 Thread strazzere
As long as your quoting my blog, you might as well read it. If you do - you'll quickly find out that your whole protection scheme is moot. Yes, like I said, ANDROID_ID is spoofable - it is "less so" since it was moved into the secure.settings. Though IMEI is also spoofable, along with any other id

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-12-02 Thread nEx.Software
Alex, it also trivial to spoof the IMEI if you really wanted to. The general user is not going to be spoofing their ANDROID_ID. On Dec 2, 1:25 am, AlexK wrote: > ANDROID_ID compromized > > http://strazzere.com/blog/?tag=android_id > > On Dec 1, 12:23 am, strazzere wrote: > > > Alex, can you plea

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-12-02 Thread AlexK
ANDROID_ID compromized http://strazzere.com/blog/?tag=android_id On Dec 1, 12:23 am, strazzere wrote: > Alex, can you please clarify something for us? > > > Today we did check of our sales. And found interesting aspects: > > 1) 4% of people that install pirated copy after "black list" > > discus

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-12-02 Thread AlexK
On Dec 1, 12:23 am, strazzere wrote: > Alex, can you please clarify something for us? > > > Today we did check of our sales. And found interesting aspects: > > 1) 4% of people that install pirated copy after "black list" > > discussions and news over internet decide to buy application; > > How a

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-30 Thread strazzere
Alex, can you please clarify something for us? > Today we did check of our sales. And found interesting aspects: > 1) 4% of people that install pirated copy after "black list" > discussions and news over internet decide to buy application; How are you getting this number -- from your technical su

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-30 Thread AlexK
Hi, Today we did check of our sales. And found interesting aspects: 1) 4% of people that install pirated copy after "black list" discussions and news over internet decide to buy application; This is really good news! 2) after changing protection and converting old versions into "honey pots" we c

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-30 Thread justinh
The amount of return I get from my efforts is already so minuscule there is no way I would spend more time trying to protect myself from piracy which the average user who walks into best buy to grab a phone has no idea how to do. Eagerly waiting for some king of magical Market update that improves

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-30 Thread Disconnect
Ask copilot how well that worked out for them... On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Dmitry.Skiba wrote: > > Huh? Regarding (1). That's almost the same as normal pc applications > > that require online activation. They either get cracked, someone > > creates a serial number generator, or people star

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-30 Thread LambergaR
implementation = authentication :) On Nov 30, 1:56 pm, LambergaR wrote: > You could implement an oauth-ish implementation. Basically, that would > mean: > - user has to register on-line and purchase the application > - at the first application run, user is redirected to web (using > webview for e

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-30 Thread LambergaR
You could implement an oauth-ish implementation. Basically, that would mean: - user has to register on-line and purchase the application - at the first application run, user is redirected to web (using webview for example) and is required to login - application should send some information to the s

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread Dmitry.Skiba
Yes, alternative shops is a solution. But not so good, as it complicates user experience. User must somehow become aware of this market, install it, and finally search for apps in both markets. On 24 ноя, 17:20, Juan Delgado wrote: > "nor can we generate an apks" > > I guess that if you implement

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread Dmitry.Skiba
> Huh? Regarding (1). That's almost the same as normal pc applications > that require online activation. They either get cracked, someone > creates a serial number generator, or people start posting stolen > activation codes. Yes, it all looks like PC situation. Also, everything can be cracked, bu

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread Dmitry.Skiba
Well, thanks for the info. I was prepared it all works like that :) And I came up with the following: (1) We obligate user to run application within N minutes after the purchase. (2) Every N minutes we update application on the market (each update effectively updates an unique id inside of applica

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread Kaj Bjurman
Huh? Regarding (1). That's almost the same as normal pc applications that require online activation. They either get cracked, someone creates a serial number generator, or people start posting stolen activation codes. On 24 Nov, 11:15, "Dmitry.Skiba" wrote: > Nice discussion you have there... >

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread Juan Delgado
"nor can we generate an apks" I guess that if you implement your own shop (shelling through your own website) you could generate the apks server side upon request? Not sure this would completely fix the problem, but if you are not happy with the Android Market there's always the possibility to rol

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread String
On Nov 24, 10:15 am, "Dmitry.Skiba" wrote: > (1) Be able to supply an unique token to the user when he buys an app, > and have him enter that token later in the app to activate it. Short of (a) requiring the user to send you personal information, and (b) manually matching up that information wit

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-24 Thread Dmitry.Skiba
Nice discussion you have there... For the last few days I was thinking about how to implement protection technics for Android apps. One way is to go with alternative markets (like slideme) which provide online activation (slidelock in case of slideme). But more challenging (and interesting!) is

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-22 Thread Nick_K
You are talking about general cases. In our case, any developer using Google Checkout as a Merchant gets a lot of information from placed order. Such information includes REAL name of customer (card issuer, card holder name, last digits of card number, etc. ). Using this information you may precise

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread LambergaR
As I have said, it might be legal to store some content for your company use (though I am pretty sure that this is included somewhere in the EULA) but I don't think it is legal to publicly share it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers"

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread Wayne Wenthin
Then wouldn't this apply to the AndroidID also?There is no permissions needed for this information. Is google violating some laws by allowing the "personal" information out without asking permission? On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 3:54 AM, LambergaR wrote: > In actuality IMEI number can be used i

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread Kaj Bjurman
You might be allowed to store personal data in some countires if you first ask a supervisory authority if you can do so. That is what e.g. banks are doing. On 20 Nov, 15:29, AlexK wrote: > ok... I got your point. > > Maybe you know how it's possible to have shared database of user > history betw

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread LambergaR
@nEx.Software: Coding this kind of protection is trivial :) Effects on the other hand are not @AlexK: You can have that kind of history only if the employees are informed that it exists and he agrees with it. You can require that by including it in your employment contract if you wish. The proble

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread AlexK
One more note - in case if I will store IMEI proccessed by some kind of algorithm that will make impossible reverting of the original data the user will be 100% safe?! for example calculate MD5/ASH1 hash and store it instead of original IMEI?! On Nov 20, 3:53 pm, LambergaR wrote: > You can report

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread AlexK
ok... I got your point. Maybe you know how it's possible to have shared database of user history between loan companies? My point is: everywhere where involved money give you possibility to collect personal data and use it for own customers protection. of course that does not mean that you can pu

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread LambergaR
You can report the user to some sort of LEGAL authority and they can get and process users data. You (as a person that is not an law officer) are not allowed to store and process any personal data without my explicit permission. So, you can report the user to police but if you are using any data g

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread AlexK
Any protection based on identification of the user. So without unique information that personally related to end-user copy protection can not be build. >From you quotes looks like I can not report about thief because I'll open his/here personal information?! On Nov 20, 12:34 pm, LambergaR wrote:

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread nEx.Software
Hmm... Seeing how this has now become a law debate much more so than anything related to development (not sure if it was ever really about development)... This should probably be shifted over to -discuss. Just saying... On Nov 20, 4:54 am, LambergaR wrote: > In actuality IMEI number can be used i

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread LambergaR
In actuality IMEI number can be used identify the user. Directive 95/46/EC article 2 paragraph a clearly states: 'personal data' shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or i

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread tauntz
Just saying that an IMEI is not "personal data".. in the country where I live in, at least (and that's in the EU). An IMEI alone can uniquely identify a mobile device, not the actual person who is using it. In broad terms, it's the same as the serial number on the back of your TV or fridge. (quotin

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread LambergaR
Here we are talking about an EU legislation that is valid in all EU states, but similar laws exist in US and other countries. Keeping and processing some person data without their knowledge and allowance is simply not allowed - and I definitely think that IMEI is something that can identify me as a

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-20 Thread Kaj Bjurman
That does of course depend on in which country you do it. You wouldn't be allowed to do it in Sweden, and you could be sued there. On 19 Nov, 18:51, LambergaR wrote: > Which law do you break by gathering personal data without informing > the user? -- You received this message because you are

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread strazzere
IANAL, but I think your misquoting it there. > - in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or; Meaning in order to protect the vital interests of the /data subject/. The data subject being the person you are collecting data from, not the person who is collecting the data. On No

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread AlexK
{QUOTE} The legitimacy of data processing: personal data may be processed only if the data subject has unambiguously given his/her consent or processing is necessary: - for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or; - for compliance with a legal obligation to which the co

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread nEx.Software
On Nov 19, 11:11 am, niko20 wrote: > Seriously, stop worrying so much about this. It's a fact of life, get > used to it. I don't think you have reached the acceptance stage yet in > your seven stages of grieving about your app being pirated...:) LOL... Being pirated is a compliment isn't it? I m

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread niko20
Dude, next thing you'll want a dongle hanging out the side of the phone in order to use the app. Seriously, stop worrying so much about this. It's a fact of life, get used to it. I don't think you have reached the acceptance stage yet in your seven stages of grieving about your app being pirated..

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread LambergaR
http://europa.eu/legislation_summaries/information_society/l14012_en.htm -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread LambergaR
Which law do you break by gathering personal data without informing the user? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send emai

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread AlexK
On Nov 19, 2:04 pm, LambergaR wrote: > There are a few things I would like to point out. First of all, I > think, that Google (or the OHA) are not there to support some lazy > developers that are not able to implement some simple web activation > mechanism. Java apps ware (and will be) subject t

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread AlexK
Catch You! Ha-ha! BTW he wrote own applications not only for our company! On Nov 19, 5:31 pm, strazzere wrote: > > As a developer, I will definitely integrate their protection system in > > my application and WILL deny activation if IMEI is in the black list. > > It would make sense for a softwa

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread AlexK
On Nov 19, 6:10 pm, G wrote: > Honestly I think you guys are spending way too much time and energy on > this thing. Less talks, more actions... Critics that authors place here helps a lot, but in most cases are covered by our team "brainstorming". Solution will become better if we find support

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread Dan Sherman
Just as a helpful suggestion, you'd be best off tracking based on some pub/priv key system, which developer issued "evidence", so when the inevitable happens, you can retract evidence from a certain user. Otherwise, even with a captcha, this is just asking to be hit hard... On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread G
Honestly I think you guys are spending way too much time and energy on this thing. Here are the facts: FACT: Piracy is a part of life, you will never stop it, ever. FACT: On the first page of this thread someone mentioned that we are now in 2009 where every major application has online activation

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread AlexK
Thanks for yours nice ideas. I'll install CAPTCHA on form. On Nov 19, 5:04 pm, Kaj Bjurman wrote: > So how do they they expect piracy to be reported? How do they handle a > worm or malicious program / user that reports all IMEI numbers that it > finds (or generates)? > > Creating a program that g

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Turchenko
I think that's intended for companies that develop software... On Nov 19, 4:01 pm, Kaj Bjurman wrote: > Do they really expect people to manually report each phone? > > On 19 Nov, 12:09, Paul Turchenko wrote: > > > Guess they are gathering data from different application vendors. As > > far as I

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread nEx.Software
I full-heartedly agree with you LambergaR. It is an extremely flawed plan and it simply cannot work as the creator expects. On Nov 19, 8:27 am, LambergaR wrote: > @nEx.Software: How can this make any sense? And, even if you do use > this wannabe anti-piracy software, you will still have to provid

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread strazzere
> As a developer, I will definitely integrate their protection system in > my application and WILL deny activation if IMEI is in the black list. It would make sense for a software developer who works at ArtfulBits to use their own "protection", wouldn't it? http://www.linkedin.com/in/paulturchenk

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread LambergaR
@nEx.Software: How can this make any sense? And, even if you do use this wannabe anti-piracy software, you will still have to provide some sort of mechanism to discover all the phones with illegal software installed, get their IMEIs and report them to some trustworthy company so they can process th

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread nEx.Software
It would be incredibly easy to do, and I am sure that at least one person has already thought of that as a way to prove this is not a viable solution. On Nov 19, 8:04 am, Kaj Bjurman wrote: > So how do they they expect piracy to be reported? How do they handle a > worm or malicious program / user

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread Kaj Bjurman
So how do they they expect piracy to be reported? How do they handle a worm or malicious program / user that reports all IMEI numbers that it finds (or generates)? Creating a program that generates IMEI and then reports them shouldn't be that hard. On 19 Nov, 15:40, "nEx.Software" wrote: > @Lam

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread nEx.Software
@LambergaR: Because they are trying to trick the user into "registering" their phone to justify they are not a pirate, but in actuality, they user is being forced to report himself/herself as a potential pirate and to give their personal information so that it may be used against them in the future

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread westmeadboy
Thanks but what about the easiest solution without having to set up your own web hosting? On Nov 19, 3:14 am, kc3000 wrote: > compare version info from app on the device and from a latest version > text file on the web -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gr

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread Kaj Bjurman
Do they really expect people to manually report each phone? On 19 Nov, 12:09, Paul Turchenko wrote: > Guess they are gathering data from different application vendors. As > far as I can tell, they will tell that device is 100% blacklisted only > if 2 of 3 application vendors have reported that p

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread kc3000
compare version info from app on the device and from a latest version text file on the web On Nov 18, 1:24 am, westmeadboy wrote: > On Nov 18, 2:57 pm, André wrote: > > > Note the users that an update is available from within your game, e.g. > > Out of interest, what's the easiest way to set

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread LambergaR
And BTW ... why do you force user to give you their personal data when they try to get their device checked? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubsc

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread LambergaR
There are a few things I would like to point out. First of all, I think, that Google (or the OHA) are not there to support some lazy developers that are not able to implement some simple web activation mechanism. Java apps ware (and will be) subject to reverse engineering. Android platform is open

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-19 Thread Paul Turchenko
Guess they are gathering data from different application vendors. As far as I can tell, they will tell that device is 100% blacklisted only if 2 of 3 application vendors have reported that particular IMEI has pirated application installed. Look here: http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/try/reportPira

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-18 Thread admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com
AlexK - you didn't mention where you get your data for the blacklist. I am guessing its based on pirated copies of your app. How are you determining which users have illegal copies? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post t

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-18 Thread niko20
+1 to Andre Wasting time worrying about this will prevent you from doing what you should, namely, pleasing the customers you do have. -niko On Nov 18, 1:24 am, westmeadboy wrote: > On Nov 18, 2:57 pm, André wrote: > > > Note the users that an update is available from within your game, e.g. > >

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-18 Thread strazzere
An a similar note -- it looks like you've enraged the user who has the IMEI "123456789123456" - since now they're at a level 1 piracy watch! Yikes! http://www.artfulbits.com/android/antipiracycheck.ashx?IMEI=123456789123456 On Nov 18, 1:39 pm, Paul Turchenko wrote: > Why emulator says that my st

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Turchenko
Why emulator says that my status is 1??? I've just installed a fresh one! On Nov 18, 7:25 pm, AlexK wrote: > Today we release anti-piracy black list check application. > > You can download it from Android Market - search: aiAntiPiracy > > Alternative Market:https://slideme.org/application/aiantip

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-18 Thread AlexK
Today we release anti-piracy black list check application. You can download it from Android Market - search: aiAntiPiracy Alternative Market: https://slideme.org/application/aiantipiracy On Nov 16, 1:12 pm, AlexK wrote: > Our company starts today anti-piracy initiative against piracy that > alr

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread westmeadboy
On Nov 18, 2:57 pm, André wrote: > Note the users that an update is available from within your game, e.g. Out of interest, what's the easiest way to set up something that allows an app to auto-detect new updates? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Andr

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread André
I'm trying to counter piracy in a slightly different way: Providing quality updates on a regular basis. Assume you have a game and release new features (like new characters, levels, achievements and other gimmicks) every few weeks or months. Note the users that an update is available from within y

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread Dan Sherman
Just do it within those 325 characters, and hope you don't have anything more important to say :) On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Paul Turchenko wrote: > I'm pretty sure we, as a developers, can warn users and explain why we > need certain permissions and assure him that we will not abuse them.

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread Paul Turchenko
I'm pretty sure we, as a developers, can warn users and explain why we need certain permissions and assure him that we will not abuse them. On Nov 17, 3:30 am, Jason Van Anden wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, nEx.Software > > wrote: > > If I don't believe an application should require I

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread strazzere
On Nov 17, 3:24 pm, Guy Cole wrote: > So let them find another app.  That isn't the point. > > The point is that some people don't work for free. > > I have already decided not to create any new "stand alone" applications for > Android.  Only services, which effectively reduces Android to a clie

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread Guy Cole
So let them find another app. That isn't the point. The point is that some people don't work for free. I have already decided not to create any new "stand alone" applications for Android. Only services, which effectively reduces Android to a client. On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Kaj Bjurma

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread Kaj Bjurman
I doubt that it would be as much as 10%. Most people will just try to find another app instead. On 17 Nov, 19:12, AlexK wrote: > On Nov 17, 7:14 pm, strazzere wrote: > > > On Nov 17, 10:32 am, AlexK wrote: > > > > In my case was stolen application with price $1.29 - pirates copies > > > reach

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread nEx.Software
What app is this? Out of curiosity... On Nov 17, 11:12 am, AlexK wrote: > On Nov 17, 7:14 pm, strazzere wrote: > > > On Nov 17, 10:32 am, AlexK wrote: > > > > In my case was stolen application with price $1.29 - pirates copies > > > reach 100-300 per day, sales become dead. > > > > So black lis

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread AlexK
On Nov 17, 7:14 pm, strazzere wrote: > On Nov 17, 10:32 am, AlexK wrote: > > > In my case was stolen application with price $1.29 - pirates copies > > reach 100-300 per day, sales become dead. > > > So black list is the only way to protect my product for now. > > So you have had 100-300 new ins

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread strazzere
On Nov 17, 10:32 am, AlexK wrote: > In my case was stolen application with price $1.29 - pirates copies > reach 100-300 per day, sales become dead. > > So black list is the only way to protect my product for now. So you have had 100-300 new installs of pirated apps a day? Or consistently have 1

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread AlexK
In my case was stolen application with price $1.29 - pirates copies reach 100-300 per day, sales become dead. So black list is the only way to protect my product for now. On Nov 17, 4:48 pm, Kaj Bjurman wrote: > It's incorrect to believe that hackers/crackers wouldn't care about > removing the p

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread AlexK
Thanks for good explanation! Greatly done. first - I do not see current version of anti-piracy implementation as a peniciline for piracy cure. It will prevent piracy in 60-70% of cases. I think this is more then sufficient. Also curreny solution is mostly oriented on Android Market (AMar), and wi

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread Kaj Bjurman
It's incorrect to believe that hackers/crackers wouldn't care about removing the protection from a cheap products. The hackers/crackers don't care about the price of the product, they just want to get famous so they crack the most popular applications regardless of price. They don't think in econom

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread AlexK
That is TRUE. But at least that will make two things right: 1) User will think twice before install pirated software 2) User that install it without knowing that it is a pirate copy can return "good face" On my prognoses only 10% from that 80% will pay for application (and my experience on other s

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread AlexK
Idea is good. And we already brain storm it. Problem is in Google - they don't want to listen us. They simply ignore all our requests. For today we theoretically possible only one implementation: 1) on start application request activation with user name and device id; 2) activation server check go

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-17 Thread AlexK
On Nov 17, 12:01 am, strazzere wrote: > It's hard to get into all the dynamics of it, but I'll gladly have a > conversation offline with you if you'd like to have one. I'll try to > touch briefly upon most of this though. > > Yes - I agreed the protection Google has implemented does not suffice

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Sou Dai
To be honest, I don't like the unknown permitssion. I have ever used an input method which is amazing. But it needs locating permitssion. I don't know why. So, I abandoned it. 2009/11/17 Jason Van Anden > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, nEx.Software > wrote: > > If I don't believe an applicat

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread yidongsoft
One effective way I have ever considered is: Market application maintains a list which contains the buying information for all the applications. Example: App foo: packageName;orderNumber;... Market check the list period: check all the order number with the google count in the mobile; if the orderN

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Nightwolf
"Only 20% of all installs are legal, other 80% are in piracy hands." I believe that in case of perfect copy protection only few of that 80% would buy your app. On 16 ноя, 14:12, AlexK wrote: > Our company starts today anti-piracy initiative against piracy that > already happened on Android Marke

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Disconnect
>From the technical side, I suspect they intended to eventually do something like that. But on arm (for whatever reason) iptables incurred a -huge- performance impact, so it was shelved/skipped. (And while you could probably muck about with the API and restrict well-behaved apps, you couldn't restr

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread nEx.Software
I have always felt that there needs to be more granular permissions for Internet usage. For example, with Google Analytics for Mobile... I would like to see an "Analytics" variant of the Internet permission. Or as you mentioned, if there is a phone home aspect, there could be permission and associa

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Jeremy Slade
Presumably all these apps are just 'phoning home' for tracking usage stats and such - nothing malicious (whether it's a good ideas is another question). Couldn't the same thing be done by an open intent that is called by all of these apps? Then the apps themselves don't need to request internet a

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread nEx.Software
Personally, I am not interested in how or if they continue to use my app. That is their business, not mine. On Nov 16, 6:30 pm, Jason Van Anden wrote: > On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, nEx.Software > > wrote: > > If I don't believe an application should require Internet, I don't > > install it

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread nEx.Software
I stand by my statement... Be up front, don't hide your intention and I will most likely be okay with it. Some developers actually do this, more need to. I would not necessarily think it is odd that a music app would want internet access. There are lots of good reasons why it might want this permi

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Rachel Blackman
>>> Not to mention that just because someone might have pirated some app >>> at some time, doesn't mean that they pirated your app. >>> That's why it needs to be able to check against Google Checkout or >>> whatever payment processor is used... >> >> Also not to mention how many people buy out-of-

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Jason Van Anden
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, nEx.Software wrote: > If I don't believe an application should require Internet, I don't > install it. I hope that there are others who do the same. To require > internet permissions (with the current generic internet permission) on > an app which really does not n

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread strazzere
It's hard to get into all the dynamics of it, but I'll gladly have a conversation offline with you if you'd like to have one. I'll try to touch briefly upon most of this though. Yes - I agreed the protection Google has implemented does not suffice for now. One would have hoped it could have been r

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread AlexK
sounds like conservation talks. I'm afraid because I don't understand what they are doing. I will not sit into train, because I don't know who in the front of it... Good application on which spent a lot of efforts requires good protection. You pay money for application and it services, and in righ

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread AlexK
You are making right comments. Yes, in some very rear cases user without internet connection will not have possibility to activate product. But let's look into reality - what channel used for legal application installing?! Right answer is - Android Market that download application over internet. (

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread nEx.Software
By the way... Dan, I love your apps and you can user stat me all you want... :) On Nov 16, 2:28 pm, strazzere wrote: > On Nov 16, 4:24 pm, AlexK wrote: > > > On Nov 16, 9:55 pm, strazzere wrote: > > Measures: > > - always sign application by digital signature; > > - distribute only over verifie

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread AlexK
sorry man, but Google did not do own "home work" well. There copy protection does not work. The only way to protect after that is server side license generation - activation. If I will know better solution I'll use it, but I do not have other solutions for today that can prevent effectively stolen

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread strazzere
On Nov 16, 4:24 pm, AlexK wrote: > On Nov 16, 9:55 pm, strazzere wrote: > Measures: > - always sign application by digital signature; > - distribute only over verified channels; > - try to use obfuscation; > - use server side activation. This hasn't protected any applications released yet, it

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread nEx.Software
No, I completely understand that developers might use it but... Given the generic permission, I'd prefer not to use it unless completely necessary. That being said, if a developer is up front about it and tells me why they want those permissions, I am far less cautious... Generally speaking, I don'

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread AlexK
On Nov 16, 9:55 pm, strazzere wrote: > Since reversing an application is a rather menial task now, whats to > prevent a user from taking your application - stripping the protection > and re-releasing it? Not to mention that IMEI spoofing to an > application can be done with a little bit of resea

Re: [android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread Dan Sherman
I understand your point completely, but just pointing out a very legitimate reason for some of those apps would be user stats (flurry, google analytics), or ad serving (admob, etc). :) - Dan On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:17 PM, nEx.Software wrote: > If I don't believe an application should require I

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread strazzere
On Nov 16, 4:04 pm, Paul Turchenko wrote: > I highly doubt that anyone would do that for $1 application. Effort > not worth trying. Maybe a 99 cent application wouldn't be worth reversing, but we aren't talking about one application. We're talking about applications that specifically are accessin

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread AlexK
On Nov 16, 9:02 pm, Rachel Blackman wrote: > On Nov 16, 2009, at 10:34 AM, nEx.Software wrote: > > > Not to mention that just because someone might have pirated some app > > at some time, doesn't mean that they pirated your app. > > That's why it needs to be able to check against Google Checkout

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread nEx.Software
If I don't believe an application should require Internet, I don't install it. I hope that there are others who do the same. To require internet permissions (with the current generic internet permission) on an app which really does not need it, such as aiFlashlight, gives me reason to question the

[android-developers] Re: Android Market Anti-Piracy

2009-11-16 Thread AlexK
Yes, INTERNET permission required. For example In our application we show activation dialog with description about activation process. In your cases can be done something different. On Nov 16, 8:16 pm, "nEx.Software" wrote: > Of course, now you have to add Full Internet permission to every app >

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