Ubisoft sues Apple, Google over Rainbow Six ‘ripoff’


‘Rainbow Six: Siege’, or ‘R6S’, has 55 million registered players around the world, according to Ubisoft’s copyright infringement lawsuit and is played by more than three million people every day. — Ubisoft

Ubisoft Entertainment SA sued Apple Inc and Google LLC, accusing the companies of selling a ripoff of its popular video game Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six: Siege.

Area F2, created by Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd’s Ejoy.com, is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six: Siege, and that can’t be “seriously be disputed”, Ubisoft said in a complaint filed Friday in federal court in Los Angeles.

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