{"id":46237,"date":"2012-10-22T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=46237"},"modified":"2012-10-22T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T09:15:25","slug":"nintendo-counterfeiter-faces-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/46237-nintendo-counterfeiter-faces-jail-time","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo counterfeiter faces jail time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong>A man busted selling counterfeited Nintendo Wii and DS games is now looking at some hard time behind bars after cashing in almost $1 million in illegal sales.<\/p>\n<p>James Success Brooks (more like &#8220;Un-Success&#8221;, <em>amirite<\/em>?), was caught out when Nintendo and the UK authorities heard of the operation, and began buying pirated and fraudulent products from various retailers until they traced them to the source.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks was charged with \u201ctwo counts of fraudulent trading, two counts of supplying an article to use in fraud, two counts of unauthorised possession of goods bearing a trademark and one count of unauthorised use of a trademark,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s pleaded guilty to all charges and is set to face a judge on 9 November for sentencing.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.croydonguardian.co.uk\/news\/9995458.Counterfeit_Nintendo_games_seller_estimated_to_have_made_about___600_000\/\" target=\"_blank\">Croydon Guardian <\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46157-street-fighter-ii-dev-jailed.html\">Street Fighter II dev jailed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46181-exclusive-new-evidence-of-steam-console-partnership-with-gamestop.html\">Exclusive! New evidence of Steam console partnership with Gamestop<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46155-inception-ripped-us-off-remember-me-dev.html\">\u201cInception ripped us off\u201d \u2013 Remember Me dev<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/46152-wii-u-voice-chat-conundrum.html\">Wii U voice chat conundrum<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Nintendo pirate will end up behind bars after being nabbed by UK authorities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":46239,"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":[31,7319,7320,73,101],"class_list":["post-46237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-copied-games","tag-game-copying","tag-nintendo","tag-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46237","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=46237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46240,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46237\/revisions\/46240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}