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Thanks for your support!

We consulted a couple of lawyers already, and here what we have:

We can go to court and we would win. The problem is that we will never find a person, who is responsible for that, because Apple don't check developers documents, and it's very easy to register Apple account with fake ID (I checked it myself yesterday when I submitted their form, they don't ask any documents at all, also my old friend who is working at Apple now and helping me with that case told me the same).

So, we will spent big amount of money for the lawyer, sue and so on. We will win. But no one will pay us compensation and no one will cover our legal service spendings. And as a result, thief will run with 60k$, and we will lose 5-10k+$ more for legal service in the UK (which is very expensive). If you have another opinion on that, I would like to hear it.

Red296 days ago(+1)

If you really want to go after them no matter the cost, you can ask for a habeas data through the court to track down the IP address of the perpetrators, the habeas data would be able to compel Apple and providing the IP address of the devs at the time they registered and uploaded the game, if the ISP is within the UK another Habeas Data would work but not even that is a guarantee that you'll get what you want. At the end of the day, you'll just have to accept the loss and end it at Apple removing the copied games or pursue this to the bitter end. If the perpetrators are outside the UK the expenses would rack up and won't be worth the presumed 60k$ at the same time the damages you'd receive may not even add up much unless you can make the perpetrators pay for your litigation fees.

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