Free Tetris iPhone App, Tris Will Be Removed Soon: Download your Free Copy Today [Updated]

Noah Witherspoon, the developer of Tris, a free version of Tetris has reported on his blog that he has received a notice from Apple to remove his popular iPhone App as "The Tetris © Company", the owner of Tetris© IP and developer of the official Tetris iPhone app believes that it violates its copyright.

You can checkout the details after the jump.

Noah Witherspoon, a college student had ported his jailbroken iPhone app with the same name "Tris" to the App Store to bring the free version of Tetris©  to the iPhone. The official Tetris©  iPhone app is available for $9.99 in the App Store.

Folks at Touch Arcade who reviewed the iPhone app had this to say:

"Touch controls move pieces left, right, down and even up, while tapping allows you to rotate your piece. The actual game is nicely implemented with attractive graphics and smooth animation. Tris also offers a global high-score system so you can compare your play with others. A lack of sound effects or music, however, makes the gameplay a little unsatisfying. Fortunately, you can play your own music in the background. Still, it’s hard to complain about free."

Tris which was released on Aug 15 seems to have done amazingly well in the short duration it has been available. The developer claims that it was downloaded half a million times (as of Aug 19, 2008). This probably prompted "The Tetris© Company", the owner of Tetris© IP to contact Apple to remove Tris from the App Store to safeguard their interest.

Witherspoon believes that "The Tetris© Company" copyright claims would get thrown out if it went to court. However, as he does not have the resources to fight this in court, he plans to remove his iPhone App from the App Store on tomorrow  (Aug 27, 2008).

So don't miss out on the chance to download your free copy of Tris from iTunes link before it gets removed from the App Store.

Tris thus joins a growing list of iPhone apps such as NetShare, BoxOffice, I am Rich etc that have been removed from the App Store for various reasons.

I won't be surprised to see Tris available for download as a jailbroken app via Cydia or the Installer app.

What do you think?

Update (Aug 27):

Tris is no longer available in the App Store, if you click on the iTunes link above you get the following error message:

"The item you've requested is not currently available"

Thanks user, yosi and Ahsan for the tip.

If you are one of those lucky ones to have downloaded and installed Tris on your iPhone then please note it will not get deleted.

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Comments

[Nate]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Bourne]

Lmao they see how it is popular so they want to make some buck out of it. They would have never claimed copyright infringement if that game wasnt popular.

[Eric]

I already have it added. If I sync my ipod, will the application automatically delete or is the only way of it being removed from my iphone is by me deleting it?

[user]

filthy apple must have just nuked it. It was part way through loading and then popped up saying it's nolonger available.

[yosi]

Oh, too bad, Its 27.8 morning here in Germany and its shown on the App Store but it wont let me download it.. Bummer..

[Ahsan]

Although i downloaded it long before

Its GONNNEEEEE

I tried to search for tris and not found.

I am glad i have it.

[Kray-Z]

effing crazy, we cant even share apps among are selves that we our selfs create because of companies that are money hungry. some one tries to do some thing nice for us and companies just crush us. i say we raise a fund for him to fight it in court, i mean if hes had half a million downloads im shure that if we all contributed a dollar that would greatly suffice, make an example of this company so that future companies wont try this again with another poor fella

[Hadi]

why making iphone so limited we bought the phone cant we get anything free!

[Mike]

You can still download Tris here if you want it:

http://rapidshare.com/files/141211672/Tris.ipa.html

[Sarah]

You can still download Tris here if you want it:

http://rapidshare.com/files/141211672/Tris.ipa.html

This does not work. You need to give out your password if this is to work. otherwise we have to buy the shit tetris for $10! BS!

[Roni]

Muito show!!! Very good!!!!

[Matt]

Even if it's removed there are still places like http://originalnintendo.net/home/2008/10/play-tetris-style-game-n-blox-by-neave.html where you can play tetris free from your internet browser. I'm hooked haha.