No, it isn’t. Some poor journalism half a decade ago based on bad translations and hearsay led to some bad articles. You added the felony bit, tho so the story unravels more.
the kotaku article is the badly translated one yes, japan has copyright advisories saying tampering with game consoles and game console save files is against japanese copyright laws and bad translations sought that out to be about modding games, it’s not
No, it isn’t. Some poor journalism half a decade ago based on bad translations and hearsay led to some bad articles. You added the felony bit, tho so the story unravels more.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/01/game-modding-illegal-in-japan-punishable-by-prison-and-fines/
okay the sk one is now a spam website so i got game journoed by some guy. for reference this is whats supposed to be the source for sk claim http://web.archive.org/web/20161204074124/https://imgur.com/a/JzqQM both underline jail time. is this wrong? if you could share some more definite sources id be thankful.
the kotaku article is the badly translated one yes, japan has copyright advisories saying tampering with game consoles and game console save files is against japanese copyright laws and bad translations sought that out to be about modding games, it’s not
makes sense! thank you for correcting me. i only remember the headlines so perhaps i shouldnt have been as confident about the matter
Why am I not surprised?
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