https://www.ign.com/articles/japanese-police-arrest-36-year-old-man-on-suspicion-of-tampering-with-pokemon-violet-save-data
Looks like he was mainly arrested because he was *selling* hacked mons, and for absurd sums (up to the equivalent of $84 usd each)
by pyro314
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It seems gamefreak and Nintendo hate more then piracy if you mod their games they will also go after you they don’t care that your modding something you bought.
Between this and Yuzu, the pattern is clear: Nintendo’s legal crosshairs will be set on you if you intend to make money off of modifying their IP. I hope the upside to this is that Nintendo deprioritizes people who are doing non-malicious homebrews and fan mods, which I think shouldn’t be legally persecuted in a fair society.
nice
This is stupid
Imagine getting arrested for making hacked pokemon
What a joke lol
I mean trust me guys I am fully on the Nintendo hate train, but they don’t even bring up Nintendo or Game Freak taking any action unless I missed something. This isn’t because the Mon’s were hacked, he was scamming and lying to people online so like of course, I don’t think this has any connection to Nintendo or Pokemons crack down on modding their games, just general police crackdown on a scam artist.
Nintendo don’t play 😭
That’s a very silly headline if the actual reason he was arrested was for selling hacked pokemon.
i mean fair, this is basically fraud
Why the fuck are the police involved like its crypto or smth
At first I was gonna call this bullshit. …But he deserved it for selling hacked mons
I’m surprised people would buy hacked mons, considering that (1) it’s been really easy to train pretty much any mon since the introduction of bottlecaps and (2) genning is pretty accessible and easy to do yourself.
Yikes! That is not cool! Selling hacked Pokemon is not a thing I want to do. I have seen plenty of people selling their Pokemon Go accounts on Facebook and I simply just don’t trust them.
I feel sorry for the dude who got caught since japanese police were notorious for holding people without evidence for months and denying any sort of medical treatment while conducting their interrogation
Imagine going to prison for this and then you get asked by your inmates why you’re in there…
Has no one heard of pkhex?