DMCA takedown targets 35 Tetris® clones in Android Market

I was just having a conversation about the joy of vintage NES clones and now this. The Tetris Company, LLC, licensee of various Tetris copyrights and Tetris trademark, sent Google a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice Tuesday demanding the removal of 35 games from the Android Market:

Google’s facilitation of the distribution, without permission, of  ‘Tetris’ games is [] in violation of trademark and unfair competition laws [...] also violate the copyright in the Tetris® game because thaty are substantially similar to [the Tetris Company LLC's] game.

As such, the Tetris Company demanded that Google immediately remove or disable access to the infringing games. As of 8PM on Thursday, the games mentioned in the notice (below) were suspended and absent from the Android Market.

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