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Apple Begins Pulling Creepy, Unlicensed Disney and Nickelodeon Games from App Store (inputmag.com) 28

Posted by msmash from the fixing-things dept.
Laura June, reporting for Input: Two days after Input reported that there were hundreds of unofficial -- often disturbing -- knock-off Disney and Nickelodeon gaming apps aimed at children in Apple's App Store, the company has begun removing the apps from the store. Some of the games found had been available for longer than a year. It remains unclear -- partially due to the way App Store guidelines are written -- on exactly how many fronts the apps in question violated Apple's policies, though many of the titles at least infringed on the IP of the characters they portrayed. It's also unclear if the apps were removed because Disney and other companies filed complaints, or if Apple removed them on its own. As of this afternoon, it seems nearly all of the apps mentioned by name in the initial report were no longer available in the App Store.
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  • They should also pull the creepy, licensed Disney movies from the iTunes store: Bambi (mother shot), Dumbo (mother taken away), Sleeping Beauty (molested in her sleep), Snow White (poisoned apple), Cinderella (abusive foster family) and many others.

    • We can't do that Disney put in an order for 100 50K mac pros

    • They should also pull the creepy, licensed Disney movies from the iTunes store: Bambi (mother shot), Dumbo (mother taken away), Sleeping Beauty (molested in her sleep), Snow White (poisoned apple), Cinderella (abusive foster family) and many others.

      You can't be serious. Did those films scar you that badly? Perhaps, then, you're not ready for society and must be sequestered away in a padded, safe place where nothing can savage your overly-sensitive psyche.

      • You can't be serious. Did those films scar you that badly?

        Yes, I hated the old Disney movies as a kid.

        Perhaps, then, you're not ready for society and must be sequestered away in a padded, safe place where nothing can savage your overly-sensitive psyche.

        I'm about ready to retire. The only "padded, safe place" I'll need is a coffin. Now get off my damn lawn!

      • They should also pull the creepy, licensed Disney movies from the iTunes store: Bambi (mother shot), Dumbo (mother taken away), Sleeping Beauty (molested in her sleep), Snow White (poisoned apple), Cinderella (abusive foster family) and many others.

        You can't be serious. Did those films scar you that badly? Perhaps, then, you're not ready for society and must be sequestered away in a padded, safe place where nothing can savage your overly-sensitive psyche.

        I know the ones mentioned just bored me as a child. As an adult, I'm a little disturbed by Beauty and the Beast. Beastiality right there in the title.

    • The Estate of the Brothers Grimm is not amused! ;)

      Boy are they lucky, Germany had no copyright back then.
      Copyright "protecting" the creation of creative works, my ass!

    • They should also pull the creepy, licensed Disney movies from the iTunes store: Bambi (mother shot), Dumbo (mother taken away), Sleeping Beauty (molested in her sleep), Snow White (poisoned apple), Cinderella (abusive foster family) and many others.

      Let us not forget the endorsement of beastiality in Beauty and the Beast.

  • I had an app rejected because of 32x32px screenshots of album covers. I contested it by saying it was fair use (and by the fact this particular app validated something like 6 times with these exact screenshots) but I ended up changing screenshots.
  • What's the point of having a walled garden if the walls are so shitty that stuff like this can get inside and make the garden a shittier place overall?

    For a long time there was some idiotic push to advertise how great your platforms app store was based on the total number of apps that could be found in it, but Sturgeon [wikipedia.org] tells us that the vast majority of it is just going to be crap. At this point I'd prefer an app store that only has 1,000 apps, but they're generally the best in category. This doesn't wor
  • Disney is rooted in creepy. Have you ever looked, I mean really looked, into Mickey's eyes?
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    • Pocahontas is historical, actually.

    • You call it a "thin line". I call it a bright line.

      If you actually read those stories and histories, it should be fairly obvious that Disney took a LOT of liberties with their retellings, leaving them nowhere close to the originals. The result in each of those cases is a character that is most certainly of Disney's creation and protectable under law.

      Take Disney's The Little Mermaid, for instance. Despite the original being a short story, they managed to alter and introduce a tremendous number of new element

  • Sorry, "IP" is already in use. Find a new one for your criminal cancer, ya thieves!

  • So does this mean that my favorite, Heart Surgery Elsa will no longer be available? That's a shame, my kid loves that one.

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