Online Bans for Pirated Copies

I had a couple of friends that had this happen to this. While I do feel bad that they can't go online for a while, at the same time... using online services of a game that hasn't even been released yet just isn't very smart. I'd be lying if I said that they didn't have it coming to them.

 

ROMs are illegal. I know that sounds stupid, especially because I use ROMs as well (DS roms though, I don't know how to install 3DS roms), but in this case, the game isn't even officially out yet. That's just outright ridiculous.
I understand why it can be tempting, but somewhere in their right minds, I'm sure the "victims" of this ban knew this could happen to them. Pokémon had all rights to ban these people from online services. After all, they did something illegal.

 

In my opinion they're lucky all they got was a ban, by all rights whoever owns the licenses for the games (I'm gonna guess it's either Nintendo or the Pokémon Company) could probably take it further.

 

I think its good that they've received some sort of punishment, it was very foolish of them do to something like that in the first place

 

This punishment is light in my opinion. They worked so hard on this game, I mean a lot of new amazing changes, and people are stealing it in end. I think a ban should be for a lot longer then 15 days, maybe for a few month or how much the game costs, 40 days. For real, maybe they should have to pay the 40 dollars it costs and they don't get a their rom and nothing from Game Freak or Nintendo in general.

 

Oh wow, I just read the article about this. It's a fair punishment considering that it was illegally obtained. I wonder if the ban will be for a long while or if it would render their 3DS' unuseable. If it's a permanent ban, then I think that's a little too far a punishment.

 

I read about this, they were kinda stupid for using services for a game not even out yet, so they had it coming.

 

They had it coming. Just wait like everyone else, taking illegal measures to play a game that will come out in a couple of days is not worth it.

 

I can't blame Nintendo for doing this one bit, the piracy of such a huge title undermines their efforts and this is like making an example of those who try. Though, I can't help but feel a little bit bad for those people who are banned and I hope it's not permanent for them.

 

It's probably just the jealousy talking - after all, I have to wait until Wednesday for these games for no reason whatsoever - but I am very glad that Nintendo decided to do this. There should be some sort of repercussion for people who decided to pirate the game. It's far too light a punishment unless it extends beyond the game's release date (perhaps but not permanent, but until the end of the year at least, certainly) but it's better than nothing.

 

I rather like Nintendo's take on the pirated versions. I mean not only were the people playing the game and revealing info that shouldn't be readily available, for nearly every single person that had downloaded the pirated version, that's one less person buying the real game to support the company. Honestly, the punishment could've been far more severe, but of course then you have to take into consideration laws of every location regarding piracy. I, personally, hope that the people who got banned stay banned for at least a couple of months to TRY to get the point across that THAT is not okay.

 

I heard it was a perma-ban, sadly no proof (Nintendo) has come out saying so, but its what they deserve...So....

 

I don't mind piracy, but these bans are totally warranted. It should have been common sense to not go online before the game's release, and I honestly don't know what anyone was expecting. It was practically waving a bright red piracy flag and yelling into a megaphone, "I stole the game! I stole the game!"

As for the length of the ban, Nintendo has given responses; however, they've been inconsistent. It seems to be leaning towards permanent, but we won't know until 15 days after the initial ban has passed.

 

"I stole the game! I stole the game!" hahaha! (my stomach)

Piracy will always be something. And no matter how you steal something, the punishment is always fair because it is unfair that you get something that is not yours without paying a price.