Six Mobile Game Companies Sue KongZhong
Sina Tech, 6/22/10
Six members of the Content Provider Union - a Chinese alliance of mobile game developers - have formed a group to bring suit against another member, mobile value-added services operator KongZhong (Nasdaq: KONG), claiming that KongZhong offered "cracked" games with disabled copy protection for download. The companies' class action suit was accepted for review by the Haidian District People's Court of Beijing last Friday. Each company is seeking damages of RMB 200,000, for a total RMB 1.2 mln in damages. A lawyer for KongZhong cited the disclaimer at the top of KongZhong's search results page, and said that the fact that KongZhong's search engine generates results without human intervention indicates that the company is not legally liable.
The plaintiffs and the pirated games are: Beijing-based X6Game.cn's "Jianghu Shuang Long Zhuan;" Beijing-based Hakuna Science and Technology's "Si Da Meinv Dou Dizhu;" Beijing-based Huayi Tian Xin's "Mohuan Feng Shen 1046;" PFU's "Zhu Xian Chuanshuo 2;" Beijing-based China Wireless Arts' "Zonglin Qi Bing 2;" and Tianjin-based Ya Xun Tiandi's "Pandora Mibao - Yongheng Chuanshuo."
Keywords: Content Provider Union piracy wireless Kongzhong KONG law litigation mobile gaming Beijing Haidian District People's Court
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