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Paid mobile apps are widely released, and people I know make a living selling them. Is anyone who buys a mobile app a chump? And what about the ACH information
by paulsutter 15y ago
Paid mobile apps are widely released, and people I know make a living selling them. Is anyone who buys a mobile app a chump?
And what about the ACH information? If you came across that sort of data you would feel free to use it to transfer a few million bucks to your own account? It would be just as easy as copying a movie. So if the data is out there, you are arguing that it's OK to do that?
- jacquesm 15y ago> Paid mobile apps are widely released, and people I know make a living selling them. Is anyone who buys a mobile app a chump? You used google and facebook as an example, they are clearly not releasing binaries but are in the service industry. Mobile applications (which I think are a transient phenomenon that will evaporate when mobile web applications will be more viable, the same happened with desktop software, with some notable exceptions) are already pirated wholesale (see http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20107572-94/how-piracy-ruins-it-for-paid-apps-inside-apps/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-20107572-94/how-piracy-ruin...) that doesn't make the writers of mobile software 'chumps', but it does mean that they will have to factor this in or they will likely be hurt. > It would be just as easy as copying a movie, and the data is out there, so you are arguing that it's OK to do that? No, obviously I'm not arguing that it is ok to do that.
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