Supreme Court in South Korea bans tools to play pirated games

In South Korea, the Supreme Court confirmed sentencing a games retailer to jail for selling hardware needed to play illegal copies of console games.

Nintendo welcomed this verdict, that was the first Supreme Court verdict on using hardware to play pirated games.

“We will continue to take stern actions against illegality and institute legal proceedings,” Nintendo Korea’s CEO, Mineo Koda, said in a statement quoted by Telecoms Korea. “Our efforts will contribute to protection of the game developers’ rights as well as to the reinforcement of the South Korean game industry.”