PUBG Game maker says Apple, Google selling rip-offs in new lawsuit
It&#x27;s sort of commonly accepted in the Game Industry that there exists an insurmountable proliferation of asset rips on mobile stores, and that there is an apparent total acceptance and tolerance of them by Google and Apple. So I&#x27;m not surprised to see such a lawsuit.<p>&gt; According to Krafton, Apple and Google have distributed hundreds of millions of copies of the Free Fire games. The complaint says Garena generated more than $100 million in revenue from Free Fire sales in the U.S. in the first three months of 2021.<p>Right right, that&#x27;s unexpected.<p><pre><code>    Edit: I meant &#x27;expected&#x27;.
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&gt; Krafton also named Google&#x27;s YouTube as a defendant for allegedly hosting videos of Free Fire gameplay, as well as a Chinese film that Krafton says is a live-action dramatization of its game.<p>But this? This is something interesting.<p>Last I heard of someone going after YouTube videos of gameplay was the raucous Nintendo made a few years back when they were sending DMCA takedowns to Streamers and YouTubers who featured gameplay of first-party Nintendo games. I don&#x27;t recall those ever really going anywhere in court?<p>Going after a film maker for making a live-action dramatization of a game that features asset rips of another game seems ... A bit of a stretch. Presumably, the live-action dramatization includes no copyrighted assets and doesn&#x27;t infringe upon any protected trademarks; and so is Krafton alleging that the live-action film features facsimiles of virtual assets that violate copyright?