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Originally Posted by Rbneader
To me, this app seems exactly the same as Alf's tools. If I buy something, I don't want it phoning home and refusing to work unless it can connect to a server somewhere. I buy non-DRM'd software for my PC, but for my phone I often don't have that choice. Apps like this would let me use a much greater range of software, just like Alf's tools let me read books from a much greater range of stores.
The argument that it makes pirating apps easier but Alf's tool don't is completely illogical. Of course Alf's tools make pirating ebooks easier. And of course there are many, many avenues to get books illegally if we choose. But we don't, because we're decent people who pay for what we buy. I'm not sure why in one instance MR seems to feel that MR members are reasonable adults and in the other instance that they're greedy thieves.
Cracking tools are cracking tools. They both facilitate the same behavior, and trying to claim otherwise simply based on content seems very silly.
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I'm with you on the "I don't want my paid app to phone home". It's a must have for me, using my phone in the metro without data.
But in such situation I don't pirate it. I tell the developer what I think about that, hoping he will fix it. If not -> uninstall.