Black market apps. - General Questions and Answers

I caught nephew downloading apps from aptoide. My question is aside from the risk of malicious code and malware, what other risks are there to downloading paid apps free?
I would assume there are legal repercussions? I tried to explain that the people who write these apps deserve to be compensated for their time and efforts. I even offered to pay for them for him.
I don't want tosee the boy in trouble for it. He is only 13 and loves to play with computers, plans to go to Georgia tech for computer engineering. Would hate to see that plan crushed for download apps without paying.
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If he plans to go to college for computer engineering, how would he feel if people were stealing his work and he didn't get paid for it? That's what he's doing.

I know and understand this. What are the legal ramifications?
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[Q] ESPN Fantasy Football 2010

Anyone have this apk? Would be very appreciated as HuddleHub doesn't really work that well
buy it in the market. no warez
Its a bit of a ripoff. Everything you can do in the app, you can do with the website.
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exactly, thats why I want the apk because I really don't feel like paying $5. But if no one has it i guess I'll have to buy it
It's not that no one has it, its that xda has rules against sharing paid apps on here. No warez they say, so if you want an app that costs, you better buy it
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I just use the mobile website, mobi.espn I think. Anyway I use it for both baseball and football. Not sure if the app is more intuitive. You could buy it and write a review, lol.
the app is good. if you can afford $5 (and I'm sure you can), buy it. if you don't want to buy it, just use the mobile website.
voghan said:
Its a bit of a ripoff. Everything you can do in the app, you can do with the website.
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precisely!! Its similar to going out to eat. Sure you can buy pasta, tomato sauce, oregano, etc to make spaghetti for cheaper than what the restaurant charges, but you pay for the CONVENIENCE of someone else doing the work for you. Same with the app...just buy it if its worth it to you. Cost v. benefits ya know?

Cracked Android Market????

Is there an installous app for android like on iphone? A way to get paid apps for free(cracked apps)
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Honestly, that's the first thing I wanted also. Then i saw how almost every app is free or a donate version. Just help the author out a little, especially since google doesn't take a huge cut of the profits like crapple.
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lol wow this is the last place to look for warez... i suggest u follow mattmartin77's advice and just pay the small fee so that the devs that make the apps u like can keep making them.....
Instead of buying a 99c cheeseburger from BK or McD you can spend it on an app that someone put quite some time into \o/
daron95 said:
Is there an installous app for android like on iphone? A way to get paid apps for free(cracked apps)
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I want food and drinks for free
Wrong place to ask this buddy...
You want to pirate apps that developers pour COUNTLESS hours of time into because you are too much of a cheap ass to spend 1 DOLLAR on someone's hard work? Some people just don't have any ethics or morals whatsoever, it is really quite sad.
One post...Why not just publicly say you want to steal?? Grow up, pay the devs and show some respect and class.
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No warez here.
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360 live app gone!

So I paid for the app among how many thousands of other ppl and Microsoft decides it wont allow 3rd party apps to gain access to an account that we the gamer/consumer pay for and google does nothing but pull the app or apps from the market and issues no refunds what the heck is that about ...its not about the money its about the poor business practices and the lack of protection of the consumer
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They want you buy windows phone instead
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Yea well that's not gonna ever happen and im tellin ya what everytime they pull crap like this makes me wanna sell my 360 and get a ps3
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Yea well deal with it. I can't understand why you need access to your gamertag on your phone if you can't play games.
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I use an app called XBOX Live Statistics. It's nice because I can see if my friends are online or not, and I can send them XBL messages from my phone. It's a little slow, but worth the load time.
Its the fact all of us who paid for an app can now no longer use it and we got no refund from the dev or google but everyone will cry like babies about pirated software and protecting their work well im saying what's protecting our (the consumer) money.
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ii Candor ii said:
I use an app called XBOX Live Statistics. It's nice because I can see if my friends are online or not, and I can send them XBL messages from my phone. It's a little slow, but worth the load time.
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They pulled that from the market too I was using it 2 days ago now its gone
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I have paid for both apps and now I wont get updates to any of them... Nor will I get a refund for either of them. I dunno who I am displeased with more Microsoft, Google, or the app Devs
I also payed for this app... I got a bit pissed off when I noticed it wasn't available anymore
Yoshilover said:
I have paid for both apps and now I wont get updates to any of them... Nor will I get a refund for either of them. I dunno who I am displeased with more Microsoft, Google, or the app Devs
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Absolutely not the devs or Google. Microsoft is at fault here. They disabled access and there was nothing anyone could do about it. Google could have given you the money back but you shouldn't be mad at them.
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I didn't even know about this. I have xbox live statistics. Is the app no longer working? I haven't checked it in a day or so, but have a widget that treks me if I have any messages or how many of my friends are online. This is a real bummer and I hope the consumers show enough outrage that they allow access once again. This affecting other mobile platforms as well?
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ii Candor ii said:
I can see if my friends are online or not, and I can send them XBL messages from my phone.
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Yup that's exactly why these apps are useful. No need to keep booting up the Xbox or load the bloated website.
Removing access is not cool at all.
Buy a ps4 like iam going to I was a big xbox fan and I still like my 360 and xbox1 but after 4 POS 360s I will not buy the next xbox! And I did not buy win7 becuz M$ riped us 360 owners off with defetive ****y hardware! M$ really Sucks it all started after Bill gates left
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well if they keep screwing with the servers to make it an "even playing field" im done with them I mean its not my.problem if the next guy has a slow connection its not fair to those of us that pay top dollar for high speed internet just to be drug down to their level atleast playstation network is free
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They only pulled it because it cost money. Had it been free it would have stayed. That's their policy on the iPhone app store thus I assume the same thing here
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check out spark 360
spark 360 is awesome
All I can say is HaHa get applanet and you won't get beet! If you want to support the dev buy the app!
Yoshilover said:
I have paid for both apps and now I wont get updates to any of them... Nor will I get a refund for either of them. I dunno who I am displeased with more Microsoft, Google, or the app Devs
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XDA is no longer worth my time.
lorijuan1024 said:
spark 360 is awesome
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Just verified that Spark 360 still works, glad I found this a while back and not the ones discussed in this thread

[Q] rule confirmation

ok so i read the rules right? no pirating or cheating from paying developers but what about markets that do free things like the ----(mod edit) app? is that considered piracy?
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KoreanJoker said:
ok so i read the rules right? no pirating or cheating from paying developers but what about markets that do free things like the ----(mod edit) app? is that considered piracy?
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Why are you so obsessed with pirating stuff? You know it's against the rules, already got in trouble, so you bring up another app that is probably either A, full of malware and crap to steal and your phones info, or B, just links to all kinds of hacked and pirated apps, which may be full of malware.
i was wondering if ----(mod edit) was considered piracy nothing else because i want more apps
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as well as no ----(mod edit) is free of such things because my phone is protected and will tell me if my info is being taken or if there is a virus
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KoreanJoker said:
i was wondering if ----(mod edit) was considered piracy nothing else because i want more apps
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Then install free apps and deal with the ad's, do that thing called get a job and pay money to dev's who spend their hard time making apps. Or, learn C, learn Java, learn android and make all your own apps you want for free.
Cheap,cheap,cheap
That's just a silly question, ---- (mod edit). What do you think that means? When ever I hear that in my head, I think of stolen goods.
Now, these stolen goods are modified to work for free without the Google Play/Market verification. Hmm Modified, lets think that through. When it is modified the person who is modifying the APK file can freely add what he desires, now what can a person add that would affect you and your phone? First of it can steal information such as phone numbers, email address', your IMEI which is very important, maybe your Google account, and maybe throw in some files that's important such as photos. Second of all once he is done robbing you blindly he can simply execute a factory reset. Now heed OUR warning.
thank u for answering my question. i will "heed your warning"
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ANY FORM of theft is not allowed here. I already warned you. You will be watched closely now, and your ip address will be blocked if you continue to break our rules. If you want more apps, pay for them, or use some of the thousands of free apps. Wanting more apps is not an excuse to steal, of someone steals something, it's because they wanted it.... duh

Need help.

First off all i wasn't sure where to post this at all so sorry mods if its not the right section please do move the thread and do not close it thanks !
Ok this is gonna be the most weirdest question ever ... is it possible to format someones computer just by having their facebook account ? Reason why im asking this a random person accessed a private file on my computer which he threathens me to publicly release it or otherwise i have to pay 700€ which is just insane.. im really desperate if this file go out im like dead really..
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shahkam said:
Bump.
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Report it to the police. Also, make sure he actually has the file. Blackmail is a crime and should be reported.
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Mr.Mischief said:
Report it to the police. Also, make sure he actually has the file. Blackmail is a crime and should be reported.
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He is not in the same country as me thats the problem i got his real name tho :/
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shahkam said:
He is not in the same country as me thats the problem i got his real name tho :/
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Report it anyway. To answer your question, if someone managed to get you to inadvertently install some spyware from Facebook on your computer, they could possibly access your files.
Best bet is to verify he actually has the file. If he does, report it to the police.
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Mr.Mischief said:
Report it anyway. To answer your question, if someone managed to get you to inadvertently install some spyware from Facebook on your computer, they could possibly access your files.
Best bet is to verify he actually has the file. If he does, report it to the police.
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He does have the file im gonna file a report against that guy and i am determined to make him stop just got his IP adress hopefully ill be able to pull a location out of of this
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It's not possible to format a hard disk through facebook,
but this person may have installed some kind of spyware on your computer and access it that way.
(did you ever open some kind of attachment from an email from him or something?? that way he could have put it on your computer)
As others have said, you should contact the police!
gdpt said:
It's not possible to format a hard disk through facebook,
but this person may have installed some kind of spyware on your computer and access it that way.
(did you ever open some kind of attachment from an email from him or something?? that way he could have put it on your computer)
As others have said, you should contact the police!
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Nope i do not remember opening an attachment however we had a webcam chat just before all this happens and it was through skype could that have anything to do ?
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Well, in the future keep truly sensitive media on a storage device that's not connected to the Internet and encrypt it.
I don't know what you have that would make you "dead" but unless it's so illegal that 700€ is a good deal, just accept it.
Maybe I'm boring, but the most embarrassing file on my computer is probably either any of the Katy Perry MP3s or a picture of me in my underwear.
If you're doing illegal things, keep them on a separate machine than the one you browse the Internet and conduct frivolous personal entertainment on.
But if it's kiddie porn, forward it to your local police kthx. Otherwise, what could be that bad? Sorry for suggesting the worst - I'm just an innocent soul who can't really imagine what could be worth 700€ outside of the realm where you could just pay someone to have this guy shot.
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Pennycake said:
Well, in the future keep truly sensitive media on a storage device that's not connected to the Internet and encrypt it.
I don't know what you have that would make you "dead" but unless it's so illegal that 700€ is a good deal, just accept it.
Maybe I'm boring, but the most embarrassing file on my computer is probably either any of the Katy Perry MP3s or a picture of me in my underwear.
If you're doing illegal things, keep them on a separate machine than the one you browse the Internet and conduct frivolous personal entertainment on.
But if it's kiddie porn, forward it to your local police kthx. Otherwise, what could be that bad? Sorry for suggesting the worst - I'm just an innocent soul who can't really imagine what could be worth 700€ outside of the realm where you could just pay someone to have this guy shot.
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**** just got real.
Anyway, you can report it to the police, I think it's a violation to someone's privacy, blackmailing is a crime, but if that "thing" is just somewhat illegal, maybe you should pay the price, that's what I've learned in Breaking Bad (tv series)
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I can understand how a lot of things can complicate people's lives - I can see if they got work information that you would get in trouble for having publicly released - but in that case I would be contacting my employer first to have them get their legal team/the police on it.
I just don't keep secrets very well, I suppose - so I don't have really anything that could be used as "dirt" against me so the situation confuses me a little. If someone got naked pictures of me and published them, it's not worth 700€ to me to stop them - might as well be proud and admit, "yep that's what I look like under my clothes, crazy that we all tend to have genitals, huh ?" Though I suppose if you were entrusted to keep naked pictures of someone else (that you presumably cared about) that would indeed be a problem and a difficult situation - pay 700€ or possibly lose a relationship with someone.
Or proof of an affair, a hidden past as a porn star now that you're an elementary school teacher who lied about that past, pictures of that time you did lines of coke off a prostitute's buttocks, or video of when you paid to kill a child in a Mexican hostel for cheap thrills. I guess I'm just not cool enough to get invited to parties where that kind of thing happens so I don't have to worry about it.
@OP, if it's not this bad, I hope it cheers you up that it could be worse ? If it's that bad, er, sorry.
Google has more dirt on me than anyone who scouring my hard-drive could get. They have the proof that I'm a barely-sentient mouth-breather who Googles the stupidest things imaginable and is incapable of installing anything on Linux without a tutorial, apparently, and went on an hours-long search binge looking at pictures of baby ungulates.
Unless it's really, really bad instead of merely embarrassing, I'd just admit it myself first and leave the "blackmailer" without anything of worth. The choices here seem like either do that, pay it, or put a measure of faith in the police in whatever country this person is located. I'm not sure how effective it would be to get this person's personal information and threaten to release it and try to drum up a media fuss - would that scare them or would they just try to take you down with them ?
I'm also curious as to how they pulled this off seemingly without indication (not doubting it, just curious).
Nono dont worry its nothing illegal but it is just a plain stupid video of me that i do not want anybody to see im quite a shy person you see... meh he haven't contacted me yet back i assume he let me go away whit it...
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I used to be very shy, but now I'm merely a private person. I learned a very good "lesson" that has held true so far - admit to yourself and be honest about it and people will respect you for that. If they don't, well, why let it bother you? That's their problem if you've personally accepted whatever happened - good, bad, or just stupid.
I have "secrets" that could potentially put my life in danger. But why let someone have that in a manner where they might not stop after one extortion - what's to say they won't just ask for more money later ? Better to tell them to piss off and then prepare myself for whatever.
Try, "haha, [blackmailers name] thinks they can get me to pay 700€ to keep this down. Well, here it is and now it's worthless since you all can view e being a moron right here, right now - go nuts"
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