[G1 Apps and Games] tjhart85:
No offense, but who are you sending my information to (well not MY information because I haven't used your program & definitely won't be now).

All I can tell about them is that they bought their domain from godaddy & don't want us to know who they are since they blocked all their information.

I also see a page: http://www.artfulbits.com/Android/try/tryBlackList.aspx that allows me to enter an IMEI to "see" if I am a pirate, but it doesn't tell me what it'll do with that information & also seems to accept ANY 15 digit key entered, which is sloppy to say the least!

http://who.godaddy.com/WhoIs.aspx?domain=artfulbits.com&prog_id=godaddy

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Since there have ALREADY apparently been false positives with your app that are possibly blacklisting people from legally purchasing other apps, I have to say this is working great for you! All the while you're sending personal information to "someone" without consent.

I thought the beauty of the Android system was that you are no longer buying for a device, you are purchasing for a platform (android)....similar to how you buy a "real" program.

If I buy a copy of a piece of software, I don't have to buy again when I get a new hard drive/motherboard/cpu/whatever, I only have to buy once.

After a while, the software manufacturer will decide that they've had enough with v3 and want to sell v4.....NO PROBLEM. I STILL have my copy of v3 and can use it for as long as I want (assuming it wasn't subscription based). If I choose to, I can buy v4 (sometimes at a discount) or I can just stay with v3 and laugh at the idiots who bought v4 just because it has an incremented number at the end of it.

You on the other hand seem to think that I should have to re-buy an app every time I get a replacement phone (whether in-warranty or just an upgrade). Well, no offense, but I don't care how good your app is, I won't be buying & honestly it's probably not even good enough to bother pirating.

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This is just damage you're doing to legit users too (also LEGAL purchasers of OTHER applications as well), you're also making a public declaration of war on pirates (many of whom like to take you up on that challenge for no reason other than the challenge itself).