Google is standardizing on two primary tools for helping developers protect against unauthorized copying: app encryption in Jelly Bean and the Licensing Service for all platforms. The older Copy Protection feature, which announced have be deprecating back in 2010, is now going away in favor of these more advanced tools. The Copy Protection feature will no longer be available in the Developer Console starting February 27, 2013 and will no longer be applied on new downloads in Google Play very soon after that. If your app has been using this feature and you would like to continue to protect against unauthorized copying, please begin using the Licensing Service.
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