{"id":40695,"date":"2012-07-03T15:38:10","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=40695"},"modified":"2012-07-03T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2012-07-03T13:41:11","slug":"student-arrested-over-wii-homebrew-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/40695-student-arrested-over-wii-homebrew-hack","title":{"rendered":"Student arrested over Wii homebrew hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese police have taken a 19 year-old college student into custody after he posted his custom Wii homebrew software online, which\u00a0allows players to boot up pirated games on Nintendo&#8217;s console.<\/p>\n<p>The student has allegedly violated Japan&#8217;s Unfair Competition Prevention Law, by the releasing the program, which was downloaded around 6,500 times from his website.<\/p>\n<p>The student also generated around $2,500 (around R20,338) from his site in advertising revenue.<\/p>\n<p>In hindsight (or any sight for that matter), hacking a console and posting about it on your personal site was probably not the best idea.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5923098\/cops-arrest-college-student-over-wii-homebrew-software\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40626-police-intercept-online-threat-raid-wrong-house.html\" target=\"_blank\">Police intercept online threat, raid wrong house<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/40676-ea-to-go-100-percent-digital-in-future.html\" target=\"_blank\">EA to go \u201c100 percent digital\u201d in future<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Wii U hands-on impressions\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/40512-wii-u-hands-on-impressions.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U hands-on impressions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/39742-wii-u-accessories-we-hope-never-happen.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wii U accessories we hope never happen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wii hacker gets caught out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":40698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,5408,2486,101,5407,5406],"class_list":["post-40695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-arrest","tag-nintendo-wii","tag-piracy","tag-wii-hack","tag-wii-homebrew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40703,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40695\/revisions\/40703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}