iPhone Piracy Laws

This world is a jungle, and if you want justice, you'll have to take care of yourself without expecting anything from the others. Of course that, if you get attacked on the street, somebody may come and help you, but if you're a programmer selling a software product and you see it become a victim of piracy, you should step in and do something before expecting for the piracy laws to be applied.

When talking about iPhone piracy laws, everything is pretty confusing, since this handset is available all over the world, and laws are not the same everywhere. This makes your own fight against piracy a must, and best way to do it is secure your program the best way you can. Today's software having its own iPhone piracy laws is Ben Chatelain's Full Screen Browser.

The story is very simple - the latest version of the Full Screen Browser software can detect pirated instances, and once that happens, the UUID of the device is reported back to its own server. After 10 days, "warez users" face the "trial over" dialog box in the image up here, and are given the chance to buy the legitimate version. Ain't that just cute? :)

At last, some statistics for the record - while some popular iPhone/iPod Touch games are simply laughing at any iPhone piracy laws you may think of, with over half of the copies in the wild being pirated ones, preliminary reports of the new Full Screen Browser version sho only a piracy rate of 10%. The conclusion? There are more "warez gamers" than those users who have "serious" pirated apps, at least on the iPhone/iPod Touch...