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

@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. Makes sense right? I have not
installed the app they have created so I am not sure whether there is
a privacy notice or something of the ilk, but if not... I'd be very
concerned about what is happening with my personal information. For
what it's worth, the online report page at http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/try/reportPirate.aspx
does not have any privacy notice so I doubt that the application does.

@Kaj Bjurman: Of course not, they only expect people to report their
own phones... And they expect developers to ALWAYS request permission
to retrieve the IMEI of the device, and Internet permissions. Sweet!
Access to information about me / my phone and the ability to send it
anywhere they wish... Sounds good to me.

On Nov 19, 7:01 am, Kaj Bjurman <kaj.bjur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Do they really expect people to manually report each phone?
>
> On 19 Nov, 12:09, Paul Turchenko <paul.turche...@gmail.com> 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 particular IMEI has
> > pirated application installed. Look here:http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/try/reportPirate.aspx-report form.http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/antipiracy.aspx-code integration.
>
> > As a developer, I will definitely integrate their protection system in
> > my application and WILL deny activation if IMEI is in the black list.
>
> > On Nov 18, 10:43 pm, "admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com"
>
> > <admin.androidsl...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > 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?
>
>

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