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After one day my Android game has had more customers from bittorrent than Google

Android piracy watch.

So maybe I wasn't surprised to find out that the torrent would do better than the play store, this however takes me aback slightly:

The top search on Google for my app and company name takes you to a website which has a cracked apk for the paid version of my game for download right there.

There's a couple of things that I find genuinely surprising here:

- my game isn't big or popular, yet someone has still spent the time and money to purchase it, decompile it, add some shitty toast for their site and share it around

- the first hit on Google is for this site rather than a legitimate link to buy it
So it isn't lost in bottom-of-page hell.
 
Android piracy watch.

So maybe I wasn't surprised to find out that the torrent would do better than the play store, this however takes me aback slightly:

The top search on Google for my app and company name takes you to a website which has a cracked apk for the paid version of my game for download right there.

There's a couple of things that I find genuinely surprising here:

- my game isn't big or popular, yet someone has still spent the time and money to purchase it, decompile it, add some shitty toast for their site and share it around

- the first hit on Google is for this site rather than a legitimate link to buy it

they were disappointed with your level of 'piracy' and wanted the full version out there?
 
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