Should Copying an App be Illegal

Have you ever scrolled through the App Store? If you have you may have noticed there are knock offs, or copies of games. For example Flappy Bird. How may rip offs have you seen of that game? A few seconds of scrolling and you'll see at least 5 copies.

Part of the problem is that anyone can publish a game. Maybe it's that it is simply easier to copy a game than to create your own original game. But is it fair for you to make up to millions of dollars copying someone else's original idea? Is it fair to make money doing such little work? You might say that is is no big deal, and that you make little money copying. This is wrong. Think of an app from the apple store. You probably thought of 2048. This game is actually a copy off of Threes created in february 2014.

I think it is wrong to copy an app. I do have the game 2048 on my iPod. I didn't know it was a copy. I also play Flappy bird. I knew this was having copywrite problems.

I found this article from https://www.yahoo.com/tech/5-blatant-mobile-game-rip-offs-110275880214.html