Game Site Owner Busted For Screenshot Posting
Posted by Marcel Klum on 19 May 2004 - 17:44 · 13 comments & 2064 views
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#1 Posted by HellBender on 19 May 2004 - 17:54
- Fuk u oka!
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#2 Posted by sputnik on 19 May 2004 - 18:08
- japanese police, sturd but fair
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#3 Posted by SW5 on 19 May 2004 - 18:52
- I could understand if the site had warez on it, screenshots ? Very sad
Feel sorry for the guy.
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#4 Posted by bangbang023 on 19 May 2004 - 19:03
- well he was trying ot make money off their copyrighted material without any consent. He got what he deserved.
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#5 Posted by Colicab on 19 May 2004 - 19:07
- Well he seems to have taken material from magazines etc via scanning aswell as suing content that wasnt his to copy / use on his site. In case of images the amount were talking here is huge and although maybe a few hundred would have been bad , I think the 20,000 more than accounts for any jail time he,ll recieve
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#6 Posted by fishie on 19 May 2004 - 19:27
- 1up makes up stories all the time. this is probably more lies!
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#7 Posted by oo420oo on 19 May 2004 - 20:30
- franks and beans
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#8 Posted by Narlzac85 on 19 May 2004 - 20:33
- Wow something happened in Fukuoka? My mom's family lives there and I thought nothing ever happened there. Yay for Japan
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#9 Posted by deiong15 on 19 May 2004 - 20:40
- funny how they jump all over people for little crap like this but people who mass sale warez software arent even touched. go figure. stuff like this is simply stupid of the big companies
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#10 Posted by Colicab on 19 May 2004 - 21:15
- yeah but this sint programs etc, this is Video etc where theres a lot more copyright protection laws, also keep in mind that images etc cant be encrypted etc via the web to prevent this, as theres no way for them to remotely send there loactions etc
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#11 Posted by Magallanes on 20 May 2004 - 18:21
- don't care about gameonline, while they don't touch suprnova!
According to the report, the unidentified site owner had over 20,000 screenshots available for download on his game news site, www.gameonline.jp. Of this collection, several hundred were allegedly found to have been taken from magazines and overseas game sites without the permission of the game publisher, a violation of Japanese copyright law.
Gameonline, one of the most popular game sites in Japan until its sudden closure last month, was a for-profit site that made its money exclusively via advertising. The site's owner had received permission from several Japanese publishers to post screenshots from their games, but other companies, including SNK Playmore, Capcom, Square Enix, and Namco, allegedly found media from their games posted on the site without their permission, leading to today's arrest.
Japanese copyright law, although similar to its U.S. equivalent, is often more strictly enforced and can lead to arrests, fines, and jail time for violators. The Gameonline news comes a day after the arrest of Isamu Kaneko, a 33-year-old programmer from Kyoto who was charged with copyright infringement for his involvement in the development of Winny, an anonymous peer-to-peer file sharing program.
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