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Originally Posted by
ramify
Piracy? How is this piracy? It's the free demo that anyone could have downloaded from the OUYA store yesterday.
Have you read any of the reviews? Have you read the threads where developers basically mention Ouya promoting sideloading in one breath and frowning on piracy with the next. The sad fact is that the general consensus is that sideloading = piracy. I'm not saying that's the case, far from it, but it basically just supports that point of view, that Android is basically not secure and ripe for rampant piracy. Ouya hasn't helped their case much either. I love the idea of an open platform, but "open" seems to always be misconstrued as free. At the very least, this could be seen as a developer losing control of distribution, and some of the responses I've seen over Twitter toward the Ouya back that up as the reason a lot of developers are wont to avoid Android altogether.
Speaking of this being the demo version, has anyone tried purchasing it? I'd imagine that it would probably issue some kind of error, but it'd be interesting to see the verbage used for that.
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