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Old 01-17-2010, 07:00 PM
Jon Westfall
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Default Advanced Anti-Piracy Protection Coming to Marketplace

http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/wm...protection.aspx

"If you are developing applications for Windows phone, you have probably read about the Standard and Advanced Anti-Piracy Protection available to developers to help protect your hard developed IP. If you haven't done so yet, check out the Windows Marketplace anti-piracy model white paper available here. Advanced Anti-Piracy Protection (AAPP) is designed to thwart the illegitimate sharing of your Windows phone applications. Even if a hacker obtains the binaries from one device, AAPP will prevent that application from running on any other device. While Standard Anti-Piracy protection does not require any intervention by the developer, AAPP does require that you integrate code into your application. We will walk through how AAPP works, how you obtain the AAPP code from Microsoft and how to integrate the AAPP code into your application."

Well I'm sure the 7 developers that have paid to be in Windows Mobile Marketplace will appreciate this. Just kidding - I'm sure their are dozens more (Although the offerings still look kinda skimpy on there, in my opinion). This method does make sense, although if I were developing for WinMo I'd probably want a solution that didn't force me to make two versions of my app (one that checked for marketplace code, the other that didn't). Therefore wouldn't it just be easier for developers to verify licenses by using something simple (like e-mail address lookup) inside the app?

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Old 01-18-2010, 12:21 AM
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Is this why the number of apps for Windows Marketplace are so appallingly paltry?

Seriously, the things Microsoft worries about. Are the Android and iPhone developers, tens of thousands of them, really that obsessed with piracy?
 
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