Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Storm8 Legal Troubles

Unfortunately, Racing Live isn't currently available in the App Store due to some legal action against Storm8. There's a class action lawsuit that alleges that the game accesses user phone numbers through a "hidden and unauthorized method," presumably an undocumented API.

I'd just be guessing as to what happens from here on out, but hopefully it doesn't interfere too much with playing the game. That being said, I wouldn't be too surprised if the whole game gets pulled :(

Here are a few links on this story:

PC World

SF Gate story showing the observed web traffic

Complaint (PDF)

Thread on Storm8 forum

Update (2009/11/11): Storm8 official response

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