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Pirated App Sold On Mac App Store

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the pay-better-attention dept.

iDuck writes "When Wolfire Games released their animal martial arts game, Lugaru HD, on the Mac App store, they could be forgiven for thinking they were seeing double. A counterfeit version of the software is currently available on the app store at a much lower price point under the name Lugaru. The best bit: as yet Apple have not responded to Wolfire's emails to rectify the situation. While the source to the game was GPLed, 'the license made it very clear that the authors retained all rights to the assets, characters, and everything else aside from the code itself.'"

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  1. Apple has learned arrogance from MS by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There was a time when I was huge Apple fan. Basically because they didn't have the arrogance problem that Microsoft has had for 20 years now.

    Apple doesn't seem to feel accountable to anyone any more. This is another great example where they don't even think they have to answer their email messages. Another lesser known example that I've had to deal with is with ITunes. They've had a major error in ITunes for many versions now where it calls a malformed URL. It calls out to "http://itunes.com." (with an extra dot). This kills programs like Dan's Guardian. (I work with kids, a filter is mandated on me). However, they have simply closed the case every time it is brought up. They're too arrogant to even do a search for a malformed URL in the code and correct it.

    I have limited my business with Apple because of this. They have decided to fight MS by becoming them.