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36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist

Posted by Soulskill on from the found-a-cliff-real-quick dept.

Zerocool3001 writes "The recently featured 36-hour port of the original Palm version of Lemmings to the iPhone and Palm Pre has received a cease and desist letter from Sony. Only one day after submitting the app for approval on the two app stores, the developer has put up a post stating that he 'did this as a tribute to the game — we can only hope that Sony actually does a conversion for platforms like iPhone and Palm Pre in the near future.' The text of the cease and desist letter is available from the developer's website."

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  1. What's the difference between a lemming and lawyer by Errol+backfiring · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's the difference between a lemming and lawyer?

    A lemming is less short-sighted: he must at least be able to follow another lemming.

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  2. Re:May I be the first to say: by jaxxa · · Score: 2, Funny

    Probably not, I think a lot of people have said that before.

  3. anonymous by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    allowing 36 hours to remove it instead of 48 hours would have shown at least a little bit of humor...

  4. It's sony's own fault by fearlezz · · Score: 2, Funny

    They forgot to rootkit the original release.

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  5. Re:Lemmings by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    if the port is low quality it hurts the whole Lemmings brand.

    It wasn't up to Sony's standards; no rootkit.

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    Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
  6. Re:my point of view (developer) by ShakaUVM · · Score: 5, Funny

    >>the only thing that is definitely "used" is the name (Lemmings) and the original EGA graphics from the game

    Well, then.

    I'm certain you'll be fine!

  7. Re:my point of view (developer) by mdwh2 · · Score: 2, Funny

    the only thing that is definitely "used" is ... the original EGA graphics from the game.

    IANAL - but since no original files are used

    There seems to be a discrepency here.