Nintendo is claiming people who exchange save data are infringing its copyright.
Nintendo is concerned about sales of Pokémon save data (in copied, original or modified form) on auction sites, and its Pokémon subsidiary clearly wants what it regards as infringing auctions to be pulled:
“Even by just copying save data using whatever method, and selling it, they’re criminally infringing our copyright.”
Whether a publisher can claim copyright over player saves is legally untested ground, and it is not clear whether Yahoo! Auctions (Japan’s major online auction venue) is willing to go along and ban such auctions.
Japan has recently been tightening its copyright regime to unheard of levels – downloading is banned, “ripping” or format shifting is about to be banned, and police have run amok arresting people for such wicked offences game lending.
Strangely, the profits of major publishers continue to shrink…
well if your using the saves as a way to hack the system yeah i agree it’s bad. but if you jsut want to share with friends? i think it’s okay as long as you don’t sell it 😛
If they’re hacked saves… then they shouldn’t be sellable
If they’re leagal aquired by people playing it for hundreds of hours… screw you Nintendo you don’t have the right even if a future court say so you do not have the right to play god
Hopefully this will be done so often that Nintendo finally pullse itself together and get rid of hacked games from the online community
sure they can hack their own games as much as they want as long as they don’t interact online i’d be fine with it
f♥♥k You Nintendo!!
How about this. If you buy Pokemon save data, then congrats for being among the stupidest motherfuckers alive.
…I bet you next they’ll go after used games store as “copy right infringement”…. This is absurd, and people in Japan should REALLY give a crap about what bull s♥♥t is being pulled. Obama Socialism, BAH! Tea Party idiots needs to see this kind of action and HAIL Obama as at least sensical