Blizzard sues for Warcraft ‘rip-off’ mobile game

Knockoffs are nothing new, particularly when it comes to mobile gaming. One search for Minecraft, for example, will display numerous copies and bootleg versions of the original – most of which probably aren’t legal. It flags up questions about Apple and Google’s filtering system and quality control.

You’ve probably seen some questionable content floating about the store and it begs the question; why is this stuff allowed to get through? Both platforms have measures in place, but they clearly aren’t able to keep copyright issues at bay all of the time, which causes headaches for developers and lawyers.

For now, we’ll have to see how Blizzard’s current court action goes, though we’ll hazard a guess that they’ll probably do quite well. It’s clear that many of their properties were stolen. Let’s just hope that less copycats and knock off clones get through to the public domain in the future.