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    1 year ago

    No, it isn’t. Some poor journalism half a decade ago based on bad translations and hearsay led to some bad articles. You added the felony bit, tho so the story unravels more.

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        1 year ago

        the kotaku article is the badly translated one yes, japan has copyright advisories saying tampering with game consoles and game console save files is against japanese copyright laws and bad translations sought that out to be about modding games, it’s not