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iPhone Developer Fights Back Against Piracy, Turns Cracked Apps into Demos
ReadWriteWeb —
... Ben Chatelain is the software engineer behind the Full Screen Web Browser application which was released in the iPhone App Store on February 12th, 2009. It soon became fairly popular, having now been downloaded over 66,000 times and ranking in the Top 100 Paid Apps lists in ten countries. In the U.S. and nine other countries, it also ranks in the Top 20 Utilities list. ...
iPhone Developer Introduces Anti-Piracy Feature; Turns Cracked Apps into Demos
iPhone Hacks —
... explains how the solution works on his blog :Full Screen Web Browser version 1.1 contains the anti-piracy solution and you can checkout the screenshot of the message users of a cracked copy will see after the demo expires (with a nice emotional touch to the message): [image] Ben's objective of incorporating anti-piracy solution was to convert some users of a cracked copy into legitimate customers and based on initial results he has seen some success as per RWW:Though some might argue that such measures can be broken and could affect even genuine users, its good to see ...
iPhone app phones home to foil pirates
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) —
Filed under: iPhone, App Store, Jailbreak/pwnageLike many iPhone developers, Ben Chatelain is frustrated to see cracked versions of his project, Full Screen Web Browser, showing up online. Following the usability suggestions of John Gruber, Ben has chosen to do something about it. The latest version of his app has detection capabilities for pirated instances, and reports the UUID of the device back to his server. After 10 days of running a cracked version, users are presented with a "trial over" dialog box and given the option ...
iPhone developer takes measures to combat piracy
Macworld —
... . Having noticed a dramatic rise in illegitimate use of his app after a cracked version was released on a piracy site, he decided to try to fight back and perhaps even convince some people to buy the program. So he built in a server-side switch in the 1.1 version that checks whether or not the application has been legitimately purchased. If not, the program waits 10 launches and then puts up a message asking the user to either quit the application or purchase it from the App Store. On the off chance that the application starts harassing users who’ve purchased it legitimately ...
iPhone developer takes measures to combat piracy
iPhone Central —
... . Having noticed a dramatic rise in illegitimate use of his app after a cracked version was released on a piracy site, he decided to try to fight back and perhaps even convince some people to buy the program. So he built in a server-side switch in the 1.1 version that checks whether or not the application has been legitimately purchased. If not, the program waits 10 launches and then puts up a message asking the user to either quit the application or purchase it from the App Store. On the off chance that the application starts harassing users who’ve purchased it legitimately ...
