Japan to crack down on piracy by legal provisions

(Compilation/Lin Jie) According to Japanese media reports, in response to the proliferation of Japanese domestic burning cards, the Japanese culture department and the Ministry of Economic and Industry decided to use legal means to take appropriate criminal penalties to limit the sale of R4 burning cards, in order to combat the increasingly serious piracy. The burning card is called "Majikon" in Japanese, which can be purchased in the major electrical markets such as Tokyo Akihabara and Osaka Electric Power City.　　In 2009, Japan's Tokyo Magistrates Court issued a decree prohibiting the sale of domestic sales in Japan, but because of the decision there is no corresponding penalties, and only civil measures, so there is no significant practical effect. It is reported that the 09 legal ban only makes the sales of burning cards into underground behavior, businesses can still have no scruples about the sale.　　In response to the growing proliferation of burning cards, the Japanese Department of Culture decided to resort to legal means to take appropriate criminal penalties, the new law will be from manufacturers and other sources to limit the flow of burning cards into the market. At present, the phenomenon of piracy has seriously hit the interests of gaming companies. According to Japanese media statistics, the burning card makes the world's legitimate game companies lost more than 4 trillion yen a year, reduced to 48 billion U.S. dollars.　　To this end, Japan's Ministry of Economic Industry hopes to adopt the October 2 to introduce a new "imitation, Piracy and proliferation Prevention treaty" to combat piracy. In the early days, R4, SC and other famous production of card manufacturers have said that its products will be able to use the Nintendo 3DS.　　Japan's domestic market to introduce criminal penalties for the burning card, it is possible for the burning card in the next 3DS era of development will bring a certain blow. Burning Card is GBA NDS, such as handheld games with a erasable cassette, through burning, so many games or a variety of content can be stored in a burning chip, and then through the machine to chip content reading, using the content of Cary. (Edit/Ming)