Daily reminder that IP law is fucking stupid.
When I was in school, I bought a Gameboy XPloder for 80 bucks and cheated Mews in Pokemon Red. I sold the Mews to everyone in school for 5 bucks a pop and made back way more than I invested. I don’t care if Nintendo finds out because I was 12 when comitting this heinous crime. As a bonus, I also never taxed those business profits. Checkmate capitalists.
monocle pops off face in shock
I also related more with Team Rocket as a child.
So, you were goofy and always screwed everything up?
Still do…
Hold on, you can sell made up pokemon that are slightly edited for $84 a pop?
What?
You can buy jpegs for 100k and sell them for 84 bucks too
Urls of Jpegs lol. Not the actual image.
He’s selling modified game save files it sounds like. No Pokémon were hurt or genetically modified in this man’s pursuit of profit.
Ah so he was commiting temporal anomalies and risking a subspace collapse from tampering with multiversal duplication.
5 years in prison sounds too lenient (/j)
I’m thinking he was probably selling saves with all the Pokémon plus all the Pokémon in shiny and a complete story. I did this with every single Pokémon game prior to switch and put them all on my Pokémon home when they were discontinuing pokebank, but only the ones that are able to be caught legit that way.
Unfair Competition Prevention Act
How is selling modified save data is unfairly competitive?
Competition is unfair to monopolies, so this law prevents competition. /j
So, I haven’t played Pokemon Violet, but looking at Wikipedia, it sounds like it’s got a multiplayer game mode:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pokémon_Scarlet_and_Violet
Mode(s): Single-player, multiplayer
I don’t know what the implications of buying what he was selling are, but it’s possible that it functionally allowed players to cheat in multiplayer, which kind of ruins the experience of other players.
If it only affects a single-player game, on the other hand, I don’t really see a problem being caused.
I’d also add that I kind of feel that at least for this particular form, even if it is multiplayer cheating, while it’s probably not practical to mitigate every form of cheating in a multiplayer game, it’s probably possible to design the game in such a way that it can’t be attacked in this particular way.
They all have multiplayer; you can battle your Pokemon against each other. But they all, also, have exploitable bugs that make cheating without editing a save file easier since you don’t need external tools to execute them. If they were actually concerned about cheating, they’d fix the bugs first.
Japan is very nuts with these sorts of laws. Can’t even legally physically mod your console
puts a sticker on their PS5
Next week: Paco Guttierez, age 9, arrested and sued for $200 million after building a cardboard Nintendo game because his family couldn’t afford the real thing
It’s a good thing they got that scoundrel off the streets before anyone got hurt… /s
Disgusting criminal scum!!! /s
Cops in japan literally has nothing to do. I bet they’re excited to finally see some action.
You know that Japan has crime? You know that large crime orgs operate in Japan? Everything from drug trafficking, sex trafficking, extortion, protection rackets, arms smuggling is happening.
Articles like this popped every once in a while until bored japan cops become a meme at this point.
Nonsense! They used to stop me all the time for riding a bicycle under the influence of being not Japanese!
WTF, is there no death sentence in Japan for crimes against humanity and the damage done to rich peoples bottom line? /s
Easy headline to lol at, but this poor guy is fucked. He was doing it to earn a living, now he faces 5 years in jail and/or a $32k fine.
Just another reminder that Nintendo and the Pokemon Company both hate your guts. They see you as an obstacle between them and your money, and they’d kill you if they thought it profitable. Pirate everything. It’s always morally correct.
dystopia dystopia dystopia dystopia
