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To ensure that my paid android application was legally installed from store, I write this: String installer = getPackageManager().getInstallerPackageName( "com.example.myapp"); if (installer == null) { // app was illegally downloaded from unknown source. // dear user, please re-install it from market } else { // app was probably installed legally // (also it's good to check actual installer name) } Is it ok? Is there a chance that application that is legally purchased and installed from market will get empty installer package name and fail this test? I understand that user can run adb -i com

I dont know what to say. About 3 days ago I released a script to the public. Today I realised, after searching on google that someone had already nulled (removed my protection) and pirated the script. How do I stop users from pirating the script? It is written in PHP. Please help or suggest some solutions. Thank you for your time. UPDATE By releasing to the public means that I have started selling it to users. UPDATE My program is priced at only $49. Very reasonable for the functionality it offers. I do not understand how I should stop pirates from pirating my code. The replies which most

Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. Learn more . Want to improve this question? Update the question so it's on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 7 years ago . I'm thinking about an App I would like to sell at .99$ on Apple App Store. Not so much, but I would like to limit piracy (or at better avoid it). What are your approaches or best practise in this field? Freemium (some features free, some others not) model? Encryption of some client/server comunication? Some sort phone detection (IMEI, whatever?) Antipiracy code library (if exists) I see piracy as a

I'm not interested in getting version information. All I want to do is to make sure my application will only run on a legal version of Windows and not on a pirated version. Windows uses some trick to determine this but still allows pirated versions to continue to run, although with some limits. So, is there a way to check if the application is installed on a legal, genuine Windows version? (Vista and better, at least.) Let me clear something up: Microsoft isn't preventing users to use a non-validated or illegal version of their operating system. Thus I don't have any reasons to block my

This is a problem we all have to consider at some point. After many years and many approaches I tend to agree in general with the staterment: "For any protected software used by more than a few hundred people, you can find a cracked version. So far, every protection scheme can be tampered with." Does your employer enforce the use of anti-piracy software? Further, every time I post about this subject, some one will remind me; "First of all, no matter what kind of protection you'll employ,a truly dedicated cracker will, eventually, get through all of the protective barriers." What's the best