Elite Copyright infringement on Apple App Store

Brian of Ardagh

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If you look up Marina Zhaborovski on the app store you see a lot of v1.0 game apps made in Russia for about $1.99 each. No reviews on any of them that I can see; seems a bit fishy to me. After a little detective work it looks like they used a screenshot from E: D to sell a really cheap "space simulator." Looking at the other apps I would say there's a good bet the apps are rip offs; I see screenshots for a Formula race app where the screenshots don't even match, probably stolen from different games.
 
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Privata

Privata
Breakneck racing.
A ''game'' using a screenshot of a FDL shooting down a ship in an astroid field...


The App store ,you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy
 

Lando452

Lando452
Brian of Ardagh said:
If you look up Marina Zhaborovski on the app store you see a lot of v1.0 game apps made in Russia for about $1.99 each. No reviews on any of them that I can see; seems a bit fishy to me. After a little detective work it looks like they used a screenshot from E: D to sell a really cheap "space simulator." Looking at the other apps I would say there's a good bet the apps are rip offs. I see screenshots for a Formula race app where the screenshots don't even match, probably stolen from different games.
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This is a common issue on the app store, I purchased an app a while back it was absolutely nothing like it was pictured, I submitted my claim to apple and they returned my money, be careful lots of pirating going on in the app store, make sure you read reviews firsts
 

dynamicbob

Banned
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Lando452 said:
This is a common issue on the app store, I purchased an app a while back it was absolutely nothing like it was pictured, I submitted my claim to apple and they returned my money, be careful lots of pirating going on in the app store, make sure you read reviews firsts
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does apple do any quality assessment work, seems not.
 

xondk

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edgepixel said:
Browsing the Apple App Store, I found this:

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Maybe Frontier Developments lawyers should ask a few questions, both to Apple and Marina Zhaborovsky
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Broken attachment, but game that uses screenshots of other games to advertise? in this case Elite? no real surprise happens all over.
dynamicbob said:
does apple do any quality assessment work, seems not.
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Well at one point they were basically advertising that their store only had quality work and that you wouldn't find many worthless 'free' apps and similar.

I suppose worthless and fake costly apps is different from that....
 
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