Topic: Japanese Man Posts Three New Pokémon, Gets Arrested

[Karl Castaneda #2]

Posting pictures of a Chaoboo, the man was caught by cyber patrolmen.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/24401

A fan who intended to "show everyone the characters that haven't been made public yet" might be in trouble (one could even say double trouble) after revealing six pictures of a Chaoboo and two other new pokémon online on September 1st, a full 17 days before they made their appearance in Black and White, the latest Japanese releases of the franchise.

While the source of the images couldn't be identified, the aforementioned pokémon were to be unveiled in the October issue of Shogakukan's Monthly CoroCoro Comic magazine, which shipped on September 15th.

Chikusei City's Makoto Sekuguchi, arrested on Tuesday for posting the pictures, was caught by the city's police while on "cyber patrol," and after consulting Shogakukan and the Association of Copyright for Computer Software (ACCS), they knew they had their man.

An investigation into how these images were obtained is ongoing.

[NESticales]

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

[Shaymin]

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

[Mop it up]

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.

[ShyGuy]

Freedom of the Press!

[King of Twitch]

This is absurd.

[broodwars]

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.

[TJ Spyke]

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.