id Software and parent ZeniMedia have filed a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint in an attempt to get non-id developed mobile games out of the Google Android mobile phone market.
There are reported to be 11 apps in total available, ranging from versions of games like Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein to non game-specific apps such as a Doom Soundboard, according to GamePolitics.
The developers of a Doom port sent Android And Me the following note: “Some of you may have noticed that Doom for Android (FREE) no longer shows up in the market. ZeniMedia, which owns iD Software had filed a DMCA notice with Google Android Market and requested all Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein games be removed do to copyright infringement.
“Although the Doom source code, was open sourced, and the application was based on a port of the PrBoom engine, the application is still suspended. My mistake was allowing the download of the Plutonia and TNT WADs, at least that is what I suspect. Although I may not be able to distribute the application through the Market, the APK can still be downloaded and installed through the web.”