Google Developer G1 loses paid-app access

[scrannel]

There's an ANDROID_ID (as mentioned here and here) that one could use but then you tie purchases to a specific device.

I don't think this is a problem, though. If you are licensed for one device, you can always transfer that license (or should be able to) to another device. Many computer apps have gone that way. For example, with Final Draft, you get a license for 3 computers. If you want to tranasfer to a forth, you "deactivate" the license on one and activate on the new computer.

[Gardenwife]

I'm really disappointed with Google on this one. :/

[GasBot]

i doubt google has a way yet to detect if you are rooted or not.
they seem to only check for firmware type.

at least thats my understanding.

Even if they tried to run "su" you could just deny it access with the superuser app and they'd think you didn't have root.