Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online

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• riodoro1@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ah yes, one of the biggest problems of the Japanese society, edited game files.

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  • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not just edited files, edited save files if the headline is to be trusted

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• p5yk0t1km1r4ge@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Say it with me now, fuck nintendo, fuck supporting nintendo and fuck everyone within nintendo. Do the right thing.

  puts on pirate hat

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  • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As sad as this makes the little kid in me who sat in awe of Super Metroid and Ocarina of Time, you’re right.

    What a bummer.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You take yours off?

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    • Dud@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Briefly, as a sign of respect.

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• KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “Endangering the brand” by using “specialized tools” to tamper with “company property”.

  Reads like the patent bullshit combined with the copyright bullshit. Some laws about software are just idiotic.

  This whole “selling licenses” needs to stop. What, my government runs Windows and now Microsoft can strongarm my government to decisions against the interest of the people? All with the power of letting the license expire if company policy isn’t met?

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• LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nintendo is seemingly able to write their own laws at this point, and both the Japanese and the American justice systems will give them anything they want. Throwback to the 80s and 90s when we legally determined that if you purchase a video game and a console, you are allowed to do anything you want with both of those things. Because you paid for them, so modifying or reverse engineering them was legally protected. We’ve just slowly been marching backward ever since then.

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  • frezik@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Nintendo would likely lose most of their court cases against emulation in the US. They get away with it because places like github don’t want to fight cease and desist letters.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Basically Disney 2.0 lol

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• Immersive_Matthew@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Seems like a gross misuse of law enforcement’s time. I do not even get how that Japanese law even really applies to this case exactly. Seems like a stretch. What am I missing? Why is this considered so serious that could land him in jail for 5 years and 10s of thousands in fines. Makes. I sense to me all. Can someone explain?

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  • KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Probably because he used “specialized tools” to edit the software, thus attacking the “trade secrets”. He tampered with company property, thus endangering the brand.

    Stupid stuff, but at least they are only wasting tax payer money /s

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  • uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On the morning of January 18, 2012, as Wikiapedia and many other websites went dark for the protest against SOPA and PIPA, squads of SWAT guys raided an estate in New Zealand belonging to Kim Dotcom. Local law enforcement was present, but the troopers belonged to US ICE.

    Representatives from the MPAA and RIAA were there

    In the US, the physical media hosting MEGAupload was seized, and the cloud storage service was shut down.

    No crime had been committed. Grounds for extradition have yet to be established, despite over a decade of litigation. No suable offense has been established. Despite a lot of efforts, court battles, and even the rise of Dotcom’s new ME.GA enterprise, nothing has been proven to justify the initial raid.

    Law enforcement isn’t about law. It’s not about protecting the public. It’s about preserving money and power for those who have it. And if Nintendo is butthurt about modded Pokémon, it’s about modded Pokémon.

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• ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Forgive me if I’m saying something stupid, as I know nothing about Pokemon. But two minutes of Googling turns up this repo that apparently lets you edit save files and more.

  Which raises the disturbing question: do people really pay to get data they could make themselves for free?

  Although I could be missing something obvious and perhaps this man was selling something this project or other similar ones couldn’t generate. Like I said, I don’t know the first thing about Pokemon.

  As for this guy being arrested for selling fake stuff, is it really dystopic? It’s no different than selling fake Rolex watches or fake signed sports memorabilia: you’re either deceiving customers if they don’t know what they’re buying from you, or you’re damaging / debasing a company’s brand.

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  • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As for this guy being arrested for selling fake stuff

    Modified, not fake. They’re not selling a fake Rolex watch, they’re selling custom watch hands. The article does not suggest they misrepresented what they were selling at any point.

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  • taanegl@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So contrary to our dispositions, most people are afraid of CLI, REPL and other acronyms that exclude the possibility of mousey clickie and box go swoosh.

    This has lead to an industry of middle men, because people would rather pay someone to run a command line process than deal with the issue them selves.

    CLI should be taught at schools, like the new form of handwriting… also: handwriting.

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    • YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not to disagree with you, but PKHex is not a CLI application. It relies heavily on a visual interface.

      The problem is not (necessarily) using the program, but loading the save files to it.

      Modding an OG switch is relatively simple but dangerous process if you do something wrong. Modding any modern switch is practically impossible to do as a normal individual.

      But once you have that it’s a dead simple process to do it, and just a little bit time consuming to gen and trade the mons

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  • jo3rn@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    OP possibly wanted to point out:

    The 36-year-old has reportedly admitted to committing the crimes (…) while providing the justification that he did it to earn a living.

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    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What is the crime? That is the part that is disturbing.

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  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    or you’re damaging / debasing a company’s brand

    Oh no

    Anyways

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Today Japan has bested the US as the most extreme cyberpunk dystopia, but tomorrow is another day.

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• geography082@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And like Sony stuff all totally overpriced . They should expect the billions we are in the world they will have a thought time fighting piracy .

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