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Nintendo is claiming people who exchange save data are infringing its copyright? New one on me, I'm sure people who use a spanner are infringing the tool makers rights too then? This has come to be after apparant selling of Pokemon save games on the internet (people buy save game data???) mostly via online auctions. Reminds of Blizzard raving about all the Warcraft items on eBay. No doubt Nintendo will throw a hissy fit because there so big, everyone will back down and this will fade away because Pokemon suck anyhow... (maybe its sales boosting trick? who knows)

Unless you buy his save game data :p

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Link : http://www.zakzak.co.jp/society/domestic/news/20110208/dms1102081601011-n1.htm

Story :

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 removed :

“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 like game lending.

Strangely, the profits of major publishers continue to shrink…

Source : Sankanu