Mobile game Threes, Chinese pirates, copy-cat clones

The mobile game Threes is fighting off Chinese pirates along with copy-cat clones - Quartz: " . . . The unfortunate answer for Vollmer and his fellow Threes developer Greg Wohlwend—as well as for anyone trying to sell apps in China—is that its software market for smartphones is rife with piracy. Illicit sites like http://www.7659.com allow users to download software without using Apple’s iTunes Store, and are chock-full of popular apps that can be downloaded for free. Chinese iPhone and iPad owners so prefer free apps to paid one that in 2012, the most recent year that data was available, the Chinese iTunes Store accounted for 18% of global downloads but only 3% of revenue...." (read more at link above)

Apparently, intellectual property rights do not mean anything in China, particularly if you a foreign company or individual. Caveat Auctor.

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