Japanese Man Arrested By Police For Selling Modified Pokémon GO Plus Accessories

I used to help kids at my school solder rapid fire mods into their controllers for an advantage in CoD!

He should be given capital punishment and his entire family should be banished from the land.

The true definition of hacker

Where can I buy one? 😉

Who cares if someone cheats in pokemon go lol. Thing is a battery drain so I would do this just to save it. It really cant be morally wrong, especially now that pokemon go actually has connectivity to Lets Go. I really dont want to play it, and this mod would be perfect for me.

Now, back to the cheaters jail I go.

I imagine there's something missing from this story in the West. Modding hardware even if it allows in game cheats can't be explicitly illegal even in Japan. The article mentions a trademark violation. Selling services to mod products you own can't violate a trademark.....so in what way was he using a Nintendo trademark that led to this?

And wow, in Japan they arrest you for trademark violations? Here they just sue you until you stave and die.

It could be Japanese law on the matter is seriously messed up, but I strongly suspect something got lost in translation here.

@JHDK : Capital punishment is a possible penalty in Japan, so there is hope for us bloodlusters yet!! Muahahaha.

I mean, the modifications he made seem convenient and they don't feel like cheating. I honestly don't see any harm in mods like this.

The only thing I got from this is that Japanese police are really, REALLY bored...

Good get all the cheaters.need to do this for anyone who mods consoles

...................That's all he made??

I mean, there’s already an off brand one called Go-tcha that does this without you having to modify it lol I have one

@MasterJay just buy a Go-Tcha. Cheaper than a go plus and not an illegal mod in Japan.

@Katelyn1223 and Datel have a new model coming out called Go-Tcha Ranger which is a 1,200mah power bank with a Gotcha shoved in it.

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with modifying the device alone, but with selling the modified version, so modify away, kids, it's fun!

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Part of me thinks he knew this was wrong in some way, just that who is going to waste their time enforcing the law on something like this when there is creepy Go stalkers around.
https://kotaku.com/alleged-stalker-claimed-he-was-just-playing-pokemon-go-1827710529

Arresting somebody for this kind of things is a bit excessive imo

Are the Japanese police usually this strict or is this outside the norm?
Arresting someone for making less than 200 pounds modifying toys seems incredibly harsh.

Well, they don’t have all that gun violence that we do here in the states. So the police gotta have something to do.

In case you didn't know, there are Pokemon Police in Japan. Also, all the shrines in Japan has a Pokemon living in it... I know, it's weird.

"The lesson here is a simple one, kids: don't modify your official equipment, and don't cheat!"
...Or just don't make money doing it, and only modify your own and no one else's.

Wow maybe a slight overreaction?

Modifying your own personal devices or "cheating" on a single player game is not bad, and certainly shouldn't be a crime. Nintendolife as expected celebrating unjust things, shameful.

Stopping cheating at the source. I like it.

@ALinkttPresent "Stopping cheating at the source. I like it."

I don't see how not having to actively press a button is cheating. It's hardly akin to infinite ammo hacks in an online shooter. He's making a device used for lazy gamers slightly more effective is all. Not exactly cheating in my book.

@May_Nyan He wasn’t arrested for modifying his own personal device. He modified and sold devices for profit using Nintendo branding without the required permission and that’s what got him arrested. It wasn’t modifying the devices per se, it was selling them as Nintendo products with Nintendo branding.
If you can read Japanese, it’s written on the last paragraph of the Yahoo’s Japan article.

@maruse I see that but I still don't think it's fair

@May_Nyan Well, it is illegal so... there’s nothing to argue here to be honest.

@maruse Laws can be unfair and unjust, they should be questioned and challenged.
What this person did doesn't harm Nintendo at all, he's modifying official devices, which means Nintendo already got the money for those devices, if anything what he's doing could only help them if it makes more people buy the device.
No matter from what perspective taking legal action doesn't seem justified.

@May_Nyan I'm not a lawyer nor a law maker. I just know that he broke the law, so he got that himself.

There are way more unjust and horrible laws to worry about than a company protecting its trademarks, there's nothing unjust about that.

That the money that guy made was insignificant it's not the point, and he was probably just kept a couple of hours just for a verbal reprimand anyway. There are definitely other better ways to make money than to use other people's branding.

But I'll leave it at here, I'm not trying to turn this into a political debate or something.

@JHDK And his name and family name shall forever be lost in history. A damnatio memoriae

@The_Mysteron It's literally a robot that plays the game for you

@ALinkttPresent If people want to pay for a robot to press a button for them, I wouldn't call that cheating. I'd call it shockingly lazy, but not cheating. Who is hurt by this exactly?

@The_Mysteron You don't have to hurt somebody else to cheat

@Jop Not from what I've seen, they often seem to be very anti-hacker.