It's also becoming clear that mobile gaming may have a piracy problem that, frankly, many in the industry are sticking their heads in the sand about.
Here's the mobile games piracy issues in a nutshell:
- Anyone with access to Google and a basic knowledge of Rapidshare can find any mobile game for free.
- What's more, they can often discover archives of hundreds of mobile games.
- Companies like Fishlabs say that the day their games go live on operator portals, they get cracked and appear on dozens of forums and sites.
- There's widespread disquiet among the industry about Nokia's MOSH UGC service, where hundreds of commercial games can be found for free, even if Nokia does remove them when asked to by publishers.
- iPhone games are getting cracked, and although you need a jailbroken handset to play them, the problem is growing.
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