It looks like Google is getting ready to launch a new anti-piracy system for Android Market apps, with this post on the Android Developers Blog outlining how the upcoming new “licensing service for applications” system works.
It’s a little complex, so we’ll let Google do the talking on this one:
“This licensing service operating real time over the network provides more flexibility in choosing license-enforcement strategies, and a more secure approach in protecting your applications from unauthorized use, than copy protection.
“Our plan is to replace the current Android Market copy-protection mechanism with this new licensing service to protect your applications over the next few months. I encourage you to check out the Licensing Your Applications section of our Developer Guide and the Android Market Help Center to learn how you can take advantage of this new service immediately.
And it does it like this:
We’ll not pretend to wholly understand what that all means, or how it works, or anything, but hopefully the end result will be less of the rampant piracy we currently see on Android. Which will be good for everyone.
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MrChaz
/ July 27, 2010This is brilliant news for developers
karen
/ July 28, 2010Agree, this is great news for Android developers (and those of us who support their efforts :-)
Ulvhamne
/ July 28, 2010the best way to stop the rampant piracing is to release paid apps to the whole world.
Adding DRM will just be a minor hiccup in the sceme of piracy.
creative
/ July 28, 2010it will definitely not eliminate android piracy. there will always be a simple work around for hackers.
HR
/ July 28, 2010great news for Android app developers, mtiks is providing anti piracy for iPhone in the market – hope Apple will follow the same like Google, as piracy rate is high in iPhone/iPad apps
tip
/ July 31, 2010Apple developers are already getting this through the following ?
http://bostinnovation.com/2010/07/28/fighting-piracy-on-apple-devices-local-startup-mtiks-ensures-developers-get-paid/