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I know some of my friends, who "steal" famous apps on Google Store, then re-compile and re-publish into their own namespaces. Even worse, he then reported back
by revskill 8y ago
I know some of my friends, who "steal" famous apps on Google Store, then re-compile and re-publish into their own namespaces.
Even worse, he then reported back the original author for stealing his apps.
What he did, is to steal resources and put his Ads into the stolen app.
I'm not sure if Google could track those things.
That's why i always consider most of Vietnamese apps on Android store are "stolen" in some cases.
In Vietnam, "stealing apps" is a real dark business.
- tinus_hn 8y agoGoogle could stop distributing pirated apps after complaints. It should be pretty clear who published the app first.
- ignoramous 8y agoThey seem to be doing just that: https://security.googleblog.com/2019/01/pha-family-highlights-zen-and-its.html https://security.googleblog.com/2019/01/pha-family-highlight...
- revskill 8y agoThe problem, is the author doesn't always know his apps are stolen.
- pjc50 8y agoSounds like they could do with an automated plagiarism detector, although that has its own gameability problems.
- UncleMeat 8y agoDoing this in a fully automated way that works well is tough. Blindly applying DroidMOSS falls over against simple techniques. Add to it that lots of repackaged apps are distributed outside channels that Google controls and you've got a hard problem.