I just found illegal download links to my SunGPS App. Is there any authority where you can report those links to in the US? I know it’s impossible to stop it after it started but at least i want to do something at all.
contact the servers that host it.
thats basically all you can do unless you are willing to fork up tens of thousands for lawyers to fight it and in the end don’t get anything out of it if not even negative.
Contact servers, get them to take down the links, then work on a major version update.
In this version update (which will have some feature that will make it better then previous version), have some fun implementing something with iPhoneUtils.isApplicationGenuine. 
It wont stop people from using the already cracked version, but it will stop them from cracking new versions.
I’ve read before that using iPhoneUtils.isApplicationGenuine could possibly cause a reject. Can you actually use it to block the whole App or will that really cause trouble during the Apple review because the reviewer just can’t review it?
I don’t want to see my main App that i’m developing since march end as free download.
Try it, if Apple rejects it, change it.
:lol: i love such 2 week tests.
Haha, 2 weeks isn’t that bad : P
I’ve heard that (legend tells…) if you disable the app straight away and just cripple it for getting bad news from iPhoneUtils.isApplicationGenuine, they are likely to reject it. However, the story goes that if you either restrict functionality or let it play for a while before crippling it, it should get through.
Not sure how true it is, but since there’s no official line on this we just have to hit and hope - which is ridiculous, I know!
Just found another thread about the piracy thing Piracy is getting worse... | TouchArcade - iPhone, iPad, Android Games Forum
Is this true?:
would it be really so easy to hack it?
It’s not just your app - virtually every app is distributed on pirate sites within days of its release. If its any consolation, most people who steal apps are hardcore pirates who aren’t actually potential buyers, so its not worth losing much sleep over. They steal anything and everything that comes along, and even if you defeat their efforts, they’re just going to move on to the next app. They’ve just removed themselves from the iTunes economy completely.
Fortunately, there are still millions of paying customers out there, and buying an app legitimately is easier and almost as cheap as just stealing it. The best defense against casual piracy is a lite version, but that will only convert the slim number of people who steal apps “just to try them,” which I suspect isn’t a large segment of the pirate population.
I found Zombieville on some pirate site within a couple days of its release too… doesn’t seem to have hurt us in the long run, but I’d love to know how many illegal copies have been played.
And only jailbroken devices can run pirated apps. Non-jailbroken devices, which is most of them, are totally out of the pirate loop.
–Eric
Like PNA said, you can’t lose sleep over it. You can still make money on the store, and its only jailbroken devices anyway…
Those people were not likely to buy your apps anyway, and some still will.
We’ve seen every app we have get pirated, however, we often update with new features etc so eventually there’s quite a big difference between the pirated app and the latest version… Have we perhaps converted some people that way? Don’t know 