36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist

Zerocool3001 writes "The recently featured 36-hour port of the original Palm version of Lemmings to the iPhone and Palm Pre has received a cease and desist letter from Sony. Only one day after submitting the app for approval on the two app stores, the developer has put up a post stating that he 'did this as a tribute to the game — we can only hope that Sony actually does a conversion for platforms like iPhone and Palm Pre in the near future.' The text of the cease and desist letter is available from the developer's website."

What's the difference between a lemming and lawyer

[Errol backfiring]

What's the difference between a lemming and lawyer?

A lemming is less short-sighted: he must at least be able to follow another lemming.

Re:May I be the first to say:

[jaxxa]

Probably not, I think a lot of people have said that before.

anonymous

[Anonymous Coward]

allowing 36 hours to remove it instead of 48 hours would have shown at least a little bit of humor...

It's sony's own fault

[fearlezz]

They forgot to rootkit the original release.

Re:Lemmings

[Hognoxious]

if the port is low quality it hurts the whole Lemmings brand.

It wasn't up to Sony's standards; no rootkit.

Re:my point of view (developer)

[ShakaUVM]

>>the only thing that is definitely "used" is the name (Lemmings) and the original EGA graphics from the game

Well, then.

I'm certain you'll be fine!

Re:my point of view (developer)

[mdwh2]

the only thing that is definitely "used" is ... the original EGA graphics from the game.

IANAL - but since no original files are used

There seems to be a discrepency here.