POLL: How many of you are using license protection?

[Highwinder]

Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering how many people are using the new license protection library.

I'm curious about how necessary copy protection is and what the general consensus is about using it. The new licensing library ads a new permission to the phone that could act as a deterrent to the more paranoid crowd from making a purchase.

Anybody have any thoughts on this? I'm weiging the pros and cons of how many people would actually be trying to pirate my app vs. how many people would avoid the download because of the new permission requirement.

Any thoughts? I'd love to hear them.

- Highwinder

 

[timo]

I just was asking me the same thing. Personally I would have preferred a copy protection that should have let users install app on SD too, not only on internal. I don't tink that web permission is the best way to update this tool. But that's it. It' up to us to evaluate pro and cons.
I don't really know what to do in the future. I Think that I will let small apps be copy protected as long as the tool is available. For bigger ones I'm in stand-by.

 

[admac231]

I have only 1 paid app. The free version of it has around 60,000 downloads, the paid version around 600.

I was going to say I never used copy protection because I never thought anyone would want to pirate it but I just had a wee google and low and behold it's posted on several forums and loads of those blog websites that seem to copy from each other.

Obviously you can't get download numbers from the filesharing sites so who knows how many times it's been pirated. To be honest though, I couldn't really care less.

As someone who does this as a hobby rather than a job it doesn't really effect me all that much and to be frank I'm kind of complimented anybody would want it that bad they would pirate it and that several different "groups" took the time to make it available. I do like the fact they all claim to have cracked it though. There is literally zero copy protection so what is there to crack? But I digress.

What I will say is if someone wants your app without paying for it they will get it. My silly little app has been pirated so anything of actual worth will be too.

As for the permissions, I've found as long as you explain it on the market most to all users are totally fine with it.

Tl;dr pirates are gunna pirate. It's inevitable. Also, most people don't care about permissions.

 

[parijs]

So long as multi millions businesses can't protect their software, I do not bother with my app

 

[JonPM]

So long as multi millions businesses can't protect their software, I do not bother with my app

amen

Sent from my DROIDX

 

[luke2012]

So long as multi millions businesses can't protect their software, I do not bother with my app

Very good point!
I think that the protection isn't 100% secure but the target is to limit the "illegal copies" of the application.