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Japan Cracks Down on Game Mods, Cheats, and Reselling

posted by chromas on Saturday January 05 2019, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the up-up-down-down-b-a-b-a-jail dept.

shortscreen writes:

A revision to Japan's Unfair Competition Prevention Act has reportedly introduced criminal penalties for reselling software product keys without permission, distributing save-game editors, and offering to edit save data as a service. Speculation is rampant as to how broadly the data-editing ban may apply.

http://mmofallout.com/japan-criminalizes-editing-save-games-punishable-with-jail-time-and-fines/
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/333748/Japan_has_made_reselling_digital_game_keys_illegal.php

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @06:33PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @06:33PM (#782578)

    Congratulations, EF! You've taken your first step into the world of linguistics with your observation that basic sequences of phonemes, even ones that seem to be nonsense in one language, can communicate different things depending on the language!

    Do you plan to start out with languages like Hebrew and Farsi? Or will you start as many English speakers do with the Romance languages like Spanish and Portuguese, so that you may communicate with our American comrades both in our local communities and down south when the revolution comes?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 05 2019, @07:27PM (1 child)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday January 05 2019, @07:27PM (#782587) Homepage

    I cannot tell you that, but what I can tell you is this: What I posted above explains rather succinctly why that guy had a high-pitched voice after the Somalian witch-doctor he visited shrunk his head.

    " Unos tacos de cabeza de vaca y dos cervezas por favor, senior "

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @11:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 05 2019, @11:56PM (#782642)

      No te olvidas el habanero buey!