{"id":56176,"date":"2013-07-10T13:19:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56176"},"modified":"2013-07-10T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T11:58:42","slug":"nintendo-wins-r9-5-million-in-piracy-damages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56176-nintendo-wins-r9-5-million-in-piracy-damages","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo wins R9.5 million in piracy damages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo has taken illegal R4 flashcard sellers to a Japanese court and won \u00a595,620,005 (R9.5 million) in damages from the companies.<\/p>\n<p>The companies Seafort Japan, Mediaforce, and Magical Company are guilty of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act for selling the piracy-enabling R4 cartridges for the Nintendo DS.<\/p>\n<p>The R4 flash card allows users to install illegal copies of DS games onto an SD card.<\/p>\n<p>Capcom, Namco Bandai, Konami, Square Enix, and D3 make up a few of the 49 plaintiffs who backed Nintendo\u2019s lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>The damage payments come after the Japanese government ruled in 2012 that all R4 devices are illegal.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/corporate\/release\/2013\/130709.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Nintendo news:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/55834-nintendo-fails-to-grab-wii-u-domain.html\"><b>Nintendo fails to grab Wii U domain<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/55375-nintendo-doesnt-care-what-competitors-are-doing.html\"><b>Nintendo doesn\u2019t care what competitors are doing<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/55118-super-smash-bros-wind-waker-hd-details-arrive.html\"><b>Super Smash Bros, Wind Waker HD details arrive<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/54747-wii-u-sales-dismal-in-sa.html\">Wii U sales dismal in SA<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R4 cartridge sellers forced to pay Nintendo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,10644,4353,73,10643,10645],"class_list":["post-56176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-damages","tag-lawsuit","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-lawsuit","tag-r4-cartridges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176","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=56176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56177,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56176\/revisions\/56177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}