Four Arrested for Game Piracy

PC World is reporting that four people in New York have been arrested for distributing game consoles with pirated Nintendo software on them.

“The arrests were made by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations on April 13 and involved consoles sold under the “Power Player” name that contain “dozens” of pirated versions of Nintendo games including Donkey Kong and Mario Bros., Nintendo says in a statement.

The four are accused of importing 27 cargo containers containing a total of 280,000 of the consoles between September and December last year, Nintendo says.”

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