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Piracy is the use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works, without permission from the copyright holder, which is typically a publisher or other business representing or assigned by the work's creator.

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How to report an Android app clone on Google Play (piracy)

Someone copied my game Minesweeper 3D and republished it on Google Play with the same name, description, resources, etc. Only the logo and icon were changed! I checked the other apps from the same "developer" and they are all copies. This question…
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Prevent time-based copy protection circumvention?

I have some trial software that I wish to distribute to clients. I want the trial based software to stop working 30 days after installed. A simple check of the system date in the software is the most straightforward way to achieve this, but couldn't…
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iPhone sdk - owners name?

Is there a way in the iPhone sdk to get the name of the contact who own's the phone? I see that my app has been cracked, and I would like to update a release which checks to see if it a cracked version and then display the following: Hello (Persons…
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how to prevent your Cydia tweaks from getting cracked?

I'm working on a new Cydia tweak, It'll be paid! The problem that I don't want it to be cracked/pirated/redistributed. Are there any scripts I can use in my tweak? Few examples: A script that will mail you a log securely to know if the user bought…
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Keep SVGs from Being Accessed by User

I'm putting together a mobile version of a webpage which consists entirely of client art. For the old-fashioned desktop version, I just used PNGs, but I really wanted to use SVG for mobile. SVGZ would be smaller and resolution independent, so it…
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Detect if the app has been cracked/pirated

I'm making an app that has purchases from the playstore, but there are always people who modify the app to be able to crack the app and buy the products for free using luckt patcher or another app. And I want to make a system in case the app…
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Preventing Screenshots (Print Screen) In Full screen Application

I have a need to prevent screenshots made by Print Screen button. And by third party software. I decided to use fullscreen so they can't use their third party software to make a screenshot. But I still have no clue how to prevent screenshot. PS.…
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Using Steamworks.NET without being published on Steam (Spacewar)

I've been doing some testing with Steamworks.NET, using the default game id that it provides (480 - Spacewar), and everything seems to work - I can access friends list, use p2p with NAT punch-through, etc, Steam just shows me and my friend playing…
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Protect my Android (Intel XDK) app from piracy

I´ve been developing an Android app with Intel XDK but now I need to know how can I protect it from piracy. Can you tell me the methods to achieve this and how can apply it with Intel XDK? (any example will be useful) Just in case, my app will work…
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Create product keys for iPhone application? [iPhone SDK]

Is it possible to assign different identifiers to copies of an app downloaded from the app store that is hard coded into the application? Or is their anyway of permanently storing an identifier in the application bundle such that when it is copied,…
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Protect client-server communication from leaks

I'm developing an android application that communicates with my server. That server provide information through a get (or post), and the application display these information. The question I want to make is if it's possible to make this connection…
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Efficient DRM for Amazon app store

I think about releasing an app at Amazon app store. They do provide their own DRM system but there seems to be no way for the app to retrieve any license validation information like Google Play offers. So I think it should be easy to patch any…
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automating RAPIDSHARE piracy file take down process

I found a new search engine that speeds up finding piracy files from rapidshare, how could I automate a tool that finds our product using this engine and outputs the list of the rapidshare URLs that will be then sent to abuse@rapidshare.com. search…
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How can I protect my videos from being stolen?

I produce movies for local companies and use JWplayer to display them on my website. However, it appears that a few companies have snatched the source of the FLV's ( Amazon's EC2 ), and embedded it on their site. Is there a practical way to prevent…
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Website project piracy checker system for mern stack

I am going go create a ecommcere website. I want to implement website tracking. If sombody clone my website and resell it. How can i track ?. How much url are using my created website and all things. And want to add unique serial key. In mern…
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