Thank god japan is cracking down on these cyber poke-terrorist. I feel as if i can sleep safely at night now.

So that's why those fansites got DMCA'd.

This isn't the first case of something like this either, there was a website that almost got shut down for putting up pictures of the new Pokémon. I think this might be the first time I've seen a company care about images appearing too soon... I don't see how that would harm the game or its sales.

Freedom of the Press!

This is absurd.

Is it just me, or is this kind of a sad commentary on what Pokemon has become?  Nintendo isn't coming down on this guy because gameplay footage or the game itself got leaked.  No, Nintendo's pissed because 3 unrevealed Pokemon got leaked.  Is that really all that's important with this franchise anymore: what the new ones look like and are named, not what the game is like?  Yeah, I know...rhetorical question.

It's the principal of the matter. The guy had no legal right to leak the images. It's the same reason retailers are threatening lawsuits to any website that puts images of Black Friday ads up early. It doesn't matter that Nintendo was planning to unveil Janovy, Chaobu and Futachimaru later, only they have the right to decide when to reveal them.