Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
by hirsin on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:34AM
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It's $19 to get a Store account that lets you submit an app (1). Developing is free, but to submit the app you have to pay. I'd be curious to see how many people with accounts haven't submitted an app - I know I haven't, but mine was free via school.
1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/publish/account...
Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
by benologist on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:12PM
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It doesn't matter how many bad apps there are when nobody wants or sees or uses them. There's also a lot of precedence with domain names and the iOS App Store for a pay-to-participate fee not really preventing bad actors from paying to participate.
Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
by tracker1 on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @12:59PM
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But it would catch the blatant stuff like in TFA...
Re:The Windows App Store Is Full of Pirate Streaming Apps
by benologist on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @07:15PM
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The Google Play Store ($5), iOS App Store ($100/yr), probably almost every big online service have experienced substantial term and law violations so it's obviously ineffective as a preventative measure.
If they instituted a $20 screening fee, that consisted of a manual review (by an actual person) before going live on the store, that would curb the vast majority of the bad acting apps. I've said similar of some content sites that charge for educational content, that have pirated materials.