Anti Piracy Dvd

[Celedonio Miranda]

Asan indy developer, it's prohibitive to start developing backend receipt validation services. Is there anything else in Apple's technologies that we can use to verify whether the person who is using my app, has paid for it?

The first thing I thought of when Apple rolled out Sign in with Apple ID, was hopefully, it would include some API that would allow me to ask a simply question: did this Apple ID pay for my app? As an indy developer, this is the one feature that would keep my paid app on the Mac App Store.

If you want to do business in Europe and the UK, and you want a backend service that stores information about your customers, then you are legally obligated to comply with the GDPR, unless you are comfortable with getting sued into your next lifetime. That's not a one man job, hence why I'm asking as an indy developer.

You're making disparaging assumptions about my abilities in a way that almost seems like borderline gas-lighting. The idea that I should simply tolerate pirates to ensure the app's reputation on the store is just bizarre to me. It is worthwhile blocking every single pirate in my view. If the software is good quality and people who value it and have paid for it, review it positively then I don't see how that will get drowned out by hypothetical bugs you feel I'll introduce.

Tired of hearing this fallacy. That's like saying the only people who will buy your app are the ones who paid for it. If a pirate is not interested in my app, then why would they download it off a pirate site? Because it's available for free. The idea that people who are willing to pay for your software, won't download it for free, given half the chance, is naive.

Everything that I wrote is based on my own, recent, experience (though with iOS apps, rather than Mac apps, which does make a difference). This is a judgement you have to make based on your own priorities.

Not quite; it's personally identifiable information that you request from the user, and they provide to you in response. It doesn't include unsolicited data such as if someone emails you their personal details without you asking for that information. I've read the +30k word document on the UK Governments guidance on GDPR. It's not a small task, but we're getting off topic, I suppose.

True, however, if you've ever read the tech news in the last decade you'll know that companies that used to publish anonymised data for research purposes have stopped doing it, because it was quite quickly discovered that even anonymised data can be cross-referenced with other data (anonymised, or otherwise) to eventually render that data no longer anonymous. Suggesting getting lawyer involved is missing the context of my original post.

But still, you need to be extremely careful with how you handle other people's financial data. I've worked as a backend engineer for over a decade in commercial banking, investment banking, publishing, startups etc. I'm well aware of the team of people required to engineer and maintain a backend solution. If you think it's a one-person job, you are already way out of your depth.

The whole point of my post is to get feedback from Apple regarding a simpler mechanism of receipt validation for those who can't afford to setup and maintain a backend receipt validation service, in the hopes of reducing app piracy and given indy developers more of chance of financial success. Bug accusations aside, I'd be happy to hear your thoughts and criticisms on this mechanism, and why, perhaps it hasn't been implemented up until now.

Also, I couldn't get AutoPairs to work on Sonoma. No matter how many times I granted it permission in Accessibility Settings, the user interface never reflected that permission, even after restarting the app. And it never did auto-complete my text.

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Piracy, or content theft, is the illegal consumption of movies, music, books and other creative materials. It happens every day, all over the world. It is a threat to the jobs of nearly 700,000 New Yorkers working in the creative industries, as well as a lot of lost revenue for the film, TV, music and fashion industries. In fact, more than 140,000 jobs have already been lost to content theft.

The NYC Mayor's Office has been committed to educating the public about the dangers of piracy since 2007. Over the years the agency has partnered with the entertainment industry to create public service campaigns designed to combat the creation, distribution and sale of pirated content. These campaigns have been supported in movie theaters, on television, online, in print and in out of home media.

(a) a description of the alleged infringement, including the specific identity of the site allegedly engaged in the sale of the alleged Illegitimate Product and compelling evidence substantiating the allegation. The notification must specifically identify any products alleged to be an Illegitimate Product and the location of the alleged Illegitimate Product(s) on the website (i.e., the specific URL path to the Illegitimate Product);

(b) evidence that the allegedly Illegitimate Products can be purchased using a Mastercard-branded payment card, for example, by providing a screenshot of the Mastercard logo appearing on the Merchant website. Test transactions are helpful, but not required to submit a complete notification;

If the Merchant is located in a country where the online sale of the alleged Illegitimate Product does not violate applicable country laws, the Acquirer must suspend or terminate acquiring sales by that Merchant to account holders of accounts issued in countries where the sale of the alleged Illegitimate Product is illegal or is otherwise prohibited by local law.

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Yes I am aware of the unsaid rule. Nobody talks about it. Push it under the carpet and thank god for no harm was done. Well, that seems to be the protocol for anyone who has gone through an anti-piracy check by leading software vendors. Except that, they end up harassing a lot of genuine users too. So here is something that I noticed as a trend and hence, sharing our experience in public. Hope it helps a lot of other folks in similar situation.

Recently we got a request each from Adobe and Microsoft for checking the compliance status of their softwares used by us. These emails are meant to get a declaration from us stating how many softwares from these companies are we using and subsequently allow their teams or appointed auditors to conduct an inspection at our premise. The email on behalf of Microsoft was from PwC. Folks emailing us for Adobe had weird email IDs without any name in it, the only thing resembling that the person is an Adobe employee was their signature. This rang a bell and made me suspect that these are outsourced sales agencies.

Considering the piracy practices in the market, they probably see good conversions. One of my friend who runs his company with 10s of official licenses from Adobe had got harassed extensively by these folks and told me that they are thick skinned people with no shame, having nothing to lose and possess no legal order/authority to force their way into an audit. He had to drop several emails to Adobe and get the harassment stopped.

In our case, a Microsoft representative went a step further and dropped by at our office uninvited & started asking my colleague about no of people working and other details while pushing for an audit. I sent them an email offering to open up all our conversations (with Microsoft) to our 4 million monthly users on Pricebaba. And as expected, they never replied after that.

#4. It is not worth you losing your sleep, distracting yourself from work and unnecessarily worrying about it. I know how that feels when someone accuses you of being a thief and threatening you with 10s of lakhs worth of fines.

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In this roundtable, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) obtained insights from businesses, intellectual property (IP) rights holders, and other stakeholders regarding anti-counterfeiting and anti-piracy trends and strategies.

Counterfeit and pirated products are readily available to U.S. consumers through all forms of commerce, including physical markets, ecommerce, and social media sites. Many of these products endanger public health and safety as well as national security, and their presence is growing: in fiscal year 2021, U.S. Customs and Border Protection made over 27,000 seizures. The estimated retail value of these seized products added up to more than $3.3. billion, an increase of 152% over the previous year.

The trade in counterfeit and pirated products negatively impacts American innovation and erodes the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturers and workers. For example, according to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, digital video piracy conservatively causes lost domestic revenues of at least $29.2 billion, and as much as $71.0 billion, annually.

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