> Current behavior is bad but the community pirating the app does not seem right either.
Feature people PAID!!!! for suddenly stopped working.
Feature people PAID!!!! for suddenly stopped working.
You shouldn't go through that much effort for something you already paid and obviously malicious/unethical approach caused you problems. If there are things in favour of piracy, it is in cases like this.
If the community supported the dev, then both might get what they want, i.e. a maintained app and some income. With negative reviews a cheaper competitor might appear due to demand. But with piracy the app is even more likely to get abandoned and no alternative will show up either.
Then again if the ecosystem is indeed that bad, perhaps this is the way to torch it even more. Still, google plans to block sideloading and then I guess we’re at their mercy.
I don't, since it was a lifetime license.
Does patching out the license check not, in this case, fall under the "interoperability" or "abandonware" clauses of the DMCA?