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A thirty year old Japanese man has been arrested for selling a hacked video game character. Akihide Yamamoto was caught selling cheats to online shooter, ‘Alliance of Valiant Arms', which is in violation of Japan's unfair competition prevention laws.
According to Japanese newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun (Via: Kotaku), Yamamoto is said to have sold a hacked game character with over powered weapons to another 40-year-old gentleman for 20,000 Yen, or just over £100 here in the UK. Yamamoto has been arrested in the past for selling cheats to online games.
According to Japanese game site, Kultur, Yamamoto ran a site on which he regularly sold hacks and cheats to online titles. Aside from Alliance of Valiant Arms, he also sold cheats for Special Force, Special Force 2, and Dragon Nest.
The cheats were apparently made by Yamamoto himself, according to the police. He had around 500 customers over the course of five years, netting him around 20 million Yen or just over £100,000 in the UK. Apparently in order to register for the site itself users had to pay a fee and would then have access to cheats at a lower rate.
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KitGuru Says: I do wonder what sort of punishment Yamamoto will face now. Due to the amount of money the police believe he made, a fine seems likely. Either way if you live in Japan, you should probably stray away from creating and profiting off of cheats and hacking tools.
Via: Kotaku, Kultur, Yomiuri Shimbun
“stray away from creating and profiting off of cheats ” is the kit guru spell check broke or somthing?
erm…….there is nothing grammatically incorrect about that statement…….
Stray away…
Yes it means to start moving away from.
Maybe the choice of words could have been simpler but they are correct and in context.
Stray is a word, and stray away is a saying…dont really see your point?
See Japan has it right, that law is needed in countries with the heaviest MMO/Online gaming communities. It would massively see a decline in hack usage in online games.
I always find it funny when somebody bitches about spelling, when grammar is the problem they are talking about…and in the process, make a spelling mistake themselves without actually having a valid point.
Hear hear! I agree 100%, and I’m Portuguese. For shame, people, for shame!
I am 1 million percent behind you!
There will always be a ‘friend’ of someone who works for the Online Game Company, a super rich person’s child, and possibly a rouge Employee you MUST beat, or you will loose every Online Game, eventually (once the Company’s Computer figures out that everyone has put in as much cash as they are going to, then the Game ends).
The Cheaters are usually reported by other Players before you get attacked (and ripped by a Cheat) so the odds are that a single Cheater will benefit the smart Players who look out for strange outcomes during gameplay.
When the Company finds the Cheat they usually offer to make it up to those who did not cry too hard and quit. That means a decent Bonus and a chance to predict when you can make a move to jump ahead of others (if that is part of that particular Game’s strategy).
Cheats, like Viruses can be funny; the ‘good’ thing about another Player using a Cheat is that your enemy opponent will often whine as they loose and another Player pays for (or works to develop the Cheat) and does all the work using it, ultimately getting caught for it (instead of you).
Play it to your advantage, make it work in your favor as best you can and complain for a refund when the time is right.