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Nov 16, 2007
6 Sim Lim Square shops raided for piracy
They allegedly sold devices that allow Nintendo consoles to play pirated games
By Chua Hian Hou
SIX shops in popular IT haunt Sim Lim Square were raided yesterday for allegedly peddling devices which allow users to download and play pirated games on their Nintendo DS handheld consoles.
More than 200 of these devices, which have been sold by game and game-console retailers there for about $40 each, were seized during the raid by the police, working with video game industry watchdog Entertainment Software Association (ESA).
The United States-based anti-piracy body´s members include some of the world´s biggest video game companies such as Electronic Arts, Vivendi Games and Square Enix. These firms produce popular titles such as World Of Warcraft and Final Fantasy.
The raid marks the ESA´s first action here, although it has been active in other countries in the region.
Its spokesman Cyril Chua said two versions of the piracy-enabling device were found: One contains a built-in storage capacity for holding the games, the other reads stored games from off-the-shelf micro-SD storage cards. Such cards are also used in devices such as mobile phones and digital cameras to store data, and each 2GB capacity card can hold about 18 games.
Also seized were two computers with pirated games and 19 micro-SD cards with pirated games pre-loaded onto them.
Until now, software busts here have been undertaken by the police, individual video game companies such as Sony, or the Business Software Alliance, which represents giants such as Microsoft and Adobe.
Mr Chua, an intellectual property lawyer, said that such devices are illegal under the Singapore Copyright Act as they ´circumvent´ technological measures that protect copyrighted works. The device does this by fooling the game system into thinking it is an original game cartridge.
No arrests were made during the raid, but anyone convicted of peddling these devices faces penalties of up to $20,000 in fines and two years´ jail.
This haul follows last month´s police seizure of more than half a million dollars of pirated movies and games, the year´s biggest haul of pirated goods.
Six magazin dans le quartier it haunt sim lim square on été perquisisionné hier pour vente (au pieton) de cartouche permettan de telecharger et de jouer a des jeux pirater sur leur nintendo ds.
plus de 200 de ces cratouche , qui on été vendu pour le prix d´un jeu normale (40 euro) ; on été saisi pendant le raid par la police, travaillant avec l´industrie du jeux vdieo, watchdog entairtenement software assoociation (ESA est une entreprise anti piratage des etats unis)
les memlbres adéreny a cette association des etats unis ne sont autre que des gens des grandes entreprises du jeux videos tel que electonic arts,vivendi game, and square nix (BEST RPG EVER).
Ce raid a marquer car c´est la premeiere action publqe et rural de L´ESA elle est maitenan active dans d´´autre region (que singapour)
cyril chua (ici interviever) id q´ui y avait deux vertion des ces cartouche pirate: une d´elle conetnai de la memoire interne pour mettre les jeux, l´autre etait capable de lire des support de stockage tel que des micro sd. des carte 2 go peuvent contenait 18 jeux pret a tre joué
on été egalement saisi 2 ordinateur avec des jeux piraté et 18 micro sd avec des jeux mis dessus.
PAs d´arestation on été faite dans ce park les cartouche on été suprimé mais tout les venderu de ces cartouche on eu une amande de 20 000 dollard.
not: traduction de moi (vite fait je peux bocoup mieux faire) que si ils ont été arrete c´est pour une raison grave car poséder un linker n´est pas un crime mais vendre des linker avec des jeux pre mis dessu en les faisant passez pour des vraie cxartocueh de nintendo est unc rime enorme donc ne vous inqueter pas cher forum ds cela ne risque pas de vous arriver.