Hide your kids, hide your wife ad hide your husband, fellow gamers, because they’re arresting everybody out here. By they, of course, I mean Japanese police. And by everybody, I mean a dude who uploaded some screenshots from the new Pokemon game.
Yeah, now you can apparently get arrested for uploading pictures of a game – if you obtained the game illegally, that is (and if you live in Japan). True, game pirates have been threatened with legal action in the past for circulating illegal copies of games that have yet to hit shelves (I’m looking at you, every Halo game since Combat Evolved), but some screenshots? Seems a bit ludicrous.
Of course, it’s not specified how the 27-year-old Yokohama resident came across his copy of the game 17 days before its September 18 release in Japan. It could have been a review copy or been otherwise legally obtained, in which case, he may have been subject to a non-disclosure agreement. Maybe he missed the clause stipulating he’d be thrown in jail for violating it.
He could have also pirated it, though, which is obviously illegal. Yet the grounds for arresting him based on copyright infringement for tweeting screenshots (or whatever) still seem shaky.
After all, we’re posting one of those screenshots here, and nothing’s happened to us.
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IT’S THE CYBER POLICE! RUN!
Oh God.. tell my cat.. I love her..
