I hope you see more jail time.

What?  Same logic, you most likely do a victimless crime and sent to an institution among voilent offenders.  Sounds fair.

Lesson learned: You can pirate but don't distribute.

yarg that lily livered land lubber got caught. RIP piracy

He should av gt more mayn

So you look at it as a victimless crime. So lets see a publisher and developer end up not making enough money from the games they make because of piracy. So now they have to close up and go out of business because they can't pay their employee's and bills.  So that leaves hundreds of people out of jobs not to mention their families that may or may not have a place to live or go. The banks that they have mortgages with now have default loans not to mention the utilites that don't get paid must now absorb this as a loss possibly causing them to make cuts in employee's to make up the difference.  Its a vicious circle and by no means is a victimless crime.

Next time you create something see how you like it if someone takes it from you and then profits by doing it.  What if someone decided to steal "pirate" your final presentation report in college and then sells it to the rest of the class.  Sort of cruel how it works when you are the victim isn't it.

The only reason you think its victimless is because you don't have to look at your victim.

Hmm... did anyone else read the last paragraph in that story? It seems Nintendo released an update for the DSi which bricks certain flashcards. Interesting, this is the first I've heard of it.

Wow not to go off topic but how come justice never happens for psp pirates?
On topic, good for cracking down on this guy.

honestly, people who pirate these games were never going to buy them anyways so you can't say they are lost profits. Companies like to rumble about the install base and potential buyers and such but it's more likely that the hardware would have sold less if not for piracy. Pirates don't buy games, they only buy hardware. No pirates means inevitably less hardware sold with no increase in software sales.

Publishers and developers lose far more to used games sales and rented game sales than they do to piracy. Piracy is like jaywalking. They may both be against the law, and neither maybe the right thing to do, and I'd even go as far as to say that both can have effects on others. That said, its extremely silly to think that people who pirate or jaywalk should be lumped in with killers and rapists.

On a personal level, I hope companies who throw away money on DRM and copyright proctect do lose money. It should teach them such things are pointless. If they redirect that money into better games then we all benifit, and maybe some of those who pirate will think the work is worth paying for.

It won't stop piraters obviously, but it may make some Japanese gamers think twice about whether or not they really want to keep their rom sites up. I mean hell, if I was making virtually no money by running a pirate site and there was even a chance of getting a huge fine and jail time my risk benefit analysis would quickly favor shutting down my site. I've been to rom sites, I can't imagine they are profiting that much off of running hentai and diet pill ads. But then again stupid criminals are stupid, and probably wouldn't have much of a risk benefit analysis process.

Either way it is illegal, so it's well within Nintendo's rights to prosecute to the full extent of the law. You can say it's a victimless crime, you can justify it, or what have you, but it's still Nintendo's right to prosecute those breaking the law. And honestly, I'd much rather companies actually prosecute pirates rather than shove annoying DRM onto disks that punishes only the honest customers.