This is a great thread and I have learned a lot.
I need your opinion/suggestion about what I am about to do in for piracy checking in my app. I estimate about 50%-75% users of my app use pirated version.
The app visits a page on my server and, if it's the first visit of the day for that user, the page delivers the next record of a database. New users always starts from the 1st record.
My plan is to make the new version of the app visit a new page and pass some encrypted value that tells the page it comes from a pirated app or not. If it is from a pirated one, it stop delivering new records if say 5 records have been delivered. No error no warning. A few days after new app, I would change the existing page so it won't work for new users. People who were using the old app (legal or illegal) can still use the app.
What do you think about this approach?
Which one of the methods mentioned in this great thread you suggest to use?
Thanks to all who contributed to this article.
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