Japanese Man Gets 2.5 Years for DS Piracy

August 5, 2009 at 20:58 PDT – Source: Andriasang

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Osaka man gets hard time for software piracy.

A judge in Kyoto, Japan has sentenced an Osaka man to 2 years 6 months jail time for selling copied DS games.

38-year-old Yoshiaki Asagiri was found guilty of copyright violations, and also fined ¥2 million with ¥7,135,450 in other penalties. The prosecutors received the financial penalties they requested, but were denied the 4 years 6 months of incarceration they were looking for.

Asagiri's crimes include running a website that allowed patrons to download DS games, as well as selling bootleg Chanel and Luis Vuitton goods. He ran the website with several other people, including a female accomplice.

Judge Junichi Tochigi said that Asagiri's crime was an "insult" to those that worked so hard to create the games, and that the losses of the copyright holders were clearly "great."

Jon Lindemann, Director

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