Piracy Mac App Store
We're only one day into a brave new world with the Mac App Store, and users have apparently already downloaded more than 1 million apps. But not all is smooth sailing in Apple Land—a simple trick has been posted on the Web that details how users can pirate a number of paid apps from the Mac App Store.
The instructions were uploaded midday on Thursday, hours after the Mac App Store made its debut. They instruct the user to download a free app and open up the package contents to access three files—one of which is the Mac App Store receipt for downloading a legitimate app.
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- Mac OS X users should be as cautious as ever about programs they download from the internet. The Mac App Store may introduce you to interesting new programs you would like to run on OS X without.
- Rather, I'm talking about stealing software, the same software that you would otherwise purchase from Apple's App Store. I was dismayed to find just how rampant iPhone app piracy is.
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Then, if the user can find a non-legit copy of a paid app (the example uses the popular game Angry Birds), he or she can then delete those three files from that app's package contents and replace them with the ones copied from the free app. After that, the pirated app should work as if it was actually purchased through the Mac App Store.
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Indeed, it is a pretty straightforward—if not evil—hack. However, as noted by Daring Fireball, the trick doesn't work for all paid apps from the store. Developers who followed Apple's instructions for validating App Store receipts should be unaffected; it's only those who don't check at all, or don't do the right kind of check, that are finding themselves being taken advantage of.
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It's a little disappointing that Apple would allow such a simple check to slip through the cracks on paid apps. Undoubtedly, we'll see those developers rush to fix up their apps and resubmit them to the store, but it seems that what's done is done when it comes to the current releases.
Apple’s Mac App Store may be the first step in the company’s plan to treat desktop software just like iOS apps, but it’s still encountering a few teething problems. After the installation issues widely reported yesterday, now it’s the turn of poor software validation opening the door to easy piracy. It seems that some applications don’t entirely follow Apple’s guidelines for validating Mac App Store receipts, and so some paid apps – like Angry Birds – can be bootlegged with receipts from free downloads.
The issue appears to be that affected apps are checking for a valid receipt, but not then checking to see that the bundle ID for the receipt matches their own bundle ID. It’s likely to be easily solved, however, with Apple most probably adding an extra check into their validation process to make sure developers haven’t left themselves open to bootlegging.
[via Daring Fireball]