On the Mac App Store and DRM

Joshua Schnell at Macgasm:

One of our writers purchased The Incident and emailed me the application file. I copied it to my Applications folder, and ran it without a hitch: No iTunes verification needed.

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It’s starting to look like this lack of “DRM” is falling on the shoulders of the developers. Apple has apparently given them the tools (AppStore receipt validation) to implement security measures for their apps. Whether or not a developer includes it is solely up to them.