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Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online (www.ign.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Well today has been rich in boring dystopic news.....

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Suppose I'm playing an 80's RPG on real legal hardware and I'm tired of grinding for XP. I use a cart reader to dump the save file, apply a patch I downloaded from the web and finish the game. I don't even have to access any copyrighted data to do this!

Unless you think data that amounts to

{
  "rtc": 1713006754,
  "savestates": [
    {
      "name": " Red",
      "xp": 1760,
      "pokemon": [
        {
          "species": 115,
          "name": "Fluff",
          "hp": 24
        },
        {
          "species": 92,
          "name": "Bonk",
          "hp": 11
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

(abriged example in JSON-y format) is copyright-protected, that is. And making a personal backup copy of software is legal (in the US) anyway.