Olympics Site Hosting ‘Pirated’ Games??
Monday, March 10th, 2008The Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee has removed a game from its official website after complaints that it was substantially copied from an independent US developer’s work.Other games which also appear similar to existing products remain on the site, however.
New York-based games developer Cadin Batrack claimed in a blog posting that “the Olympics stole my game”.
Batrack highlighted what he claims are strong similarities between his Snow Day game, and a game on the Olympics website titled Fuwa Fight the Winter Clouds.
Looks like copyright infringement can infiltrate even the oldest of establishments. The Olympics Website has been hosting ‘pirated’ games in the form of one of their flash games being substantially similar to a game created by Ferry Halim. Apparently even the code used some of the same variable names. I assume their web development team won’t be winning any gold medals.
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