{"id":13002,"date":"2011-07-19T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"zynga-accused-of-stealing-farmville-source-code-from-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13002-zynga-accused-of-stealing-farmville-source-code-from-competitor","title":{"rendered":"Zynga accused of stealing Farmville source code from competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farmville might be the biggest thing on Facebook since privacy violations, but maybe not for very much longer &ndash; the developer has just been accused of nicking the source code for the game from another company.<\/p>\n<p>California-based dev SocialApps has filed litigation against Zynga for &ldquo;copyright infringement, violation of trade secrets, breach of written contract, breach of implied-in-fact contract, and breach of confidence&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patentarcade.com\/2011\/07\/online-farming-game-dispute.html\" target=\"_blank\">Patent Arcade,<\/a> the lawsuit contends that Zynga persuaded SocialApps to share the source code for its own social networking game, myFarm, then simply made off with it.<\/p>\n<p>SocialApps is suing now suing Zynga for a permanent injunction against distributing Farmville, as well as statutory and punitive damages, totalling over $600 000.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not the first time Zynga has faced similar accusations&ndash; shortly after launching Farmville, sceptical critics pointed out its uncanny resemblance to Slashkey&rsquo;s Farm Town, a MySpace \/ Facebook game which is pretty much exactly the same as Farmville.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps more importantly, why does anybody play this crap?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15758-Farmvill-creator-accused-of-stealing-source-code?p=477524#post477524\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Zynga&#8217;s alleged IP theft <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dun dun dun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}