Japanese Copyright Boss Calls DS Piracy Terrorism
Japanese Copyright Boss Calls DS Piracy Terrorism
May 26, 2009
A leading copyright enforcement official in Japan has likened individuals who pirate Nintendo DS games to terrorists.
tech.radar reports that Yutaka Kubota (left), who heads Japan's Association of Copyright for Computer Software, made the comment to Famitsu magazine:
This is an issue that affects our national interests and, personally, I see it as a form of information terrorism that is crushing Japan's industry.
tech.radar also notes that Kubota's organization has close ties to Nintendo. The DS manufacturer claims that 120 million bootleg copies of DS games were downloaded through the end of 2007. Such activity is not illegal in Japan, but pending legislation would make such downloading a crime.
A PUBLICATION OF THE ECA
SUBSCRIBE
LOGINGamePolitics ShoutBox
Posted 11/21/09 at 01:00pm
ZippyDSMlee: MT taco:Come come join us, we have discounts!!!
ZippyDSMlee: MT taco:Come come join us, we have discounts!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 12:35pm
magic_taco: It doesnt have anything to do with the "National Institue of Morons & Failures"
magic_taco: It doesnt have anything to do with the "National Institue of Morons & Failures"
Posted 11/21/09 at 12:34pm
magic_taco: No, I just recently had something on my mind.
magic_taco: No, I just recently had something on my mind.
Posted 11/21/09 at 10:57am
ZippyDSMlee: magic_taco:days are more specail when zippy gets up in the AM!!!!
ZippyDSMlee: magic_taco:days are more specail when zippy gets up in the AM!!!!
Posted 11/21/09 at 09:21am
magic_taco: ...ok...
magic_taco: ...ok...
Posted 11/21/09 at 08:16am
ZippyDSMlee: Welcome and goodmorning its zippy in the AM....wat OMG its 8:50AM!!!!
ZippyDSMlee: Welcome and goodmorning its zippy in the AM....wat OMG its 8:50AM!!!!
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:42pm
ZippyDSMlee: oh may the cute stab out your eyes, http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
ZippyDSMlee: oh may the cute stab out your eyes, http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:17pm
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:10pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:01pm
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:59pm
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:49pm
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:46pm
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:44pm
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:42pm
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:33pm
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:25pm
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
Copyright © 2007 ECA. All rights reserved.
Game Politics and Game Politics logo are trademarks of the ECA.
Game Politics and Game Politics logo are trademarks of the ECA.
Comments
Someone should send a mailbomb to this guys office so the moron can learn the difference between downloading a bootleg and terrorism.
DISCLAIMER: Don't though, it would be a frightfully silly thing to do.
--------------------------------------------------
I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.
Don't like it?
Call it Terrorism.
Seems to be the favourite trick of just about everyone everywhere these days.
We need to remove your freedoms.. its for the children, otherwise the terrorists win and only peadophiles would be against this, are you a terrorist peadophile?
Every member of the Parents Television Council is.
Geaux Saints, Geaux Tigers, Geaux Hornets, Jack Thompson can geaux chase a chupacabra.
I was thinking the exact same thing. "Terrorism" is the new "Communism."
Terrorism is by definition a political action. Unless this guy is telling us that Nintendo is a government, it's not terrorism.
While I disagree with bootleg copies of DS games, I don't think the term terrorism is correct.
Terrorism not being the correct term is a vast understatement at best. It's the worst kind of hyperbole that equates people that aren't much more than small time rip offs of companies, with mass murderers.
-Gray17
Oh FUCK this guy! This moron is like every other whiney lobbyist who thinks slapping the word "terrorism" is a reasonable way to garner focus and credibility for whatever the hell they're protecting or fighting for. This is akin to anti-breastfeeding groups who compare flashing a nipple around a child to sexually abusing children- there's no goddamn basis for the claim, and replacing one word with another isn't the same message.
Merriam-Webster definition
When you download games, the terrorists win!
At best (or worst?) it could be called intellectual terrorism, if the ROMs were being downloaded with specific intent to defraud the company from which you're technically stealing. Which in my case is absolutely correct. I can't wait to stiff the big N for the forty bucks I can't actually pay them to get a copy of Mother 3! Suck on that, Japanese economy!
ps. I'm also Canadian and therefore a member of the Big Five Pirate Council. Come and get me. 8)
---
The Mammon Philosophy
unless your goal is to cause terror and fear it is not terrorism.
hell it doesn't even unintentially cause terror and fear.
Piracy-It strikes fear in the heart of wallets everywhere!
*blinks* I guess the homebrew market is going to be killed off soon then.
Damn! He's onto us! Our secret plot to instill fear in the hearts of software developers everywhere by stealing their games on such a massive scale that they no longer dare making any games except for My Little Pony and Barbie, is ruined!
I'd better tell Jack about this! Ohmanohman he is going to be so angry...
</sarcasm>
This is the most asanine comment I've heard regarding video games since, well, our own government here in the States made the same kind of bullshit connections a couple of years ago regarding piracy and how it funnels money to terrorists.
And I call CP totalitarianism, fascism so HA! BACK AT YOU!!! You morons have gotten so Gdamn greedy and stupid you have to think that everything that might slight you in the tinniest amount is terrorism…. The game genie/shark is terrorism because it lets you play a game for the lulz and not strictly (and boring) how it was made….
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com
I suddenly have an amusing mental image of Terrorists vs Nazis.
-Gray17
Pirates vrs ninjas!! Only Hitler has the ninjas….on snap!!
I am a criminal because I purchase media,I am a criminal because I use media, I am a criminal because I chose to own media..We shall remain criminals until Corporate stay's outside our bedrooms..
http://zippydsmlee.wordpress.com
Worst hyperbole in there isn't DS game piracy being terrorism but the idea, that the Japanese industry is so dependent on the Nintendo DS that video game piracy can crush it.
It'll be used games next.
There already is a terror plot in operation against the second-hand market. It is called DRM and it is pure evil dont ever think otherwise.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The most difficult pain a man can suffer is to have knowledge of much and power over little" - Herodotus
Man, I thought the US copyright industry would make this bassackwards statement first.
Hah, as if we're going take anything said by a child rapist seriously! Wait, what's that? He's not a rapist? But I said he was, therefore he is!
I mean cmon, obviously bootlegging DS games is not a good thing, but equating it to terrorism? What does 'information terrorism' even mean?
Terrorism - the use of violence and threats to intimidate or coerce, esp. for political purposes.
I'm not really sure how you can use violence via 'information', I suppose you could use threats, but a threat without previous use of violence isn't very threatening..
Who would've thought that one day this wouldn't be a gag at propaganda from the 50s but instead a criticism of modern day hyperbole with a cold war flair.
Calling it terrorism is a disgrace and the person should be chastised for that, real terrorism is far worse than game pirating. At worst game pirating can be compared to the black market for stolen goods, their motivation is profit and nothing more, not political or religious reasons but profit plain and simple.
----------------------------------------------------
Debates are like merry go rounds. Two people take their positions then they go through the same points over and over and over again. Then when it's over they have the same positions they started in.
Do you really expect anything else but sock puppet talk from a sock puppet?
Come on guys, it's his job! If his money came from the Japanese Farmer's Association he'd claim that having small fruit plants on your balcony is "terrorism".
ZAR.
The problem is that the copyright cartels ARE the real torrorists to society and a down-right plague on culture.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
"The most difficult pain a man can suffer is to have knowledge of much and power over little" - Herodotus