Nintendo sets up DS piracy snitching website
Grass up the shops, make them respect Nintendo's authoritah
Piracy is bad, m'kay.
Now we've established that, we can move on to Nintendo's newly formed Retail Police, which are bringing the boot down hard on Japanese shops that continued to sell DS flash carts after the Big N (along with 54 other companies) successfully lobbied the Tokyo District Court to ban the import of such devices.
The lack of compliance has since encouraged Nintendo to send out letters to these evil shopkeepers demanding they stop selling flash carts, taking up the reins after the law apparently wasn't quick enough.
Unfortunately, it seems these retailers had the audacity to ignore Nintendo, and a new suit has been filed by the 55 game companies who are now looking to extract damages from the shops.
To further its campaign, Nintendo has launched a website allowing the good people of the Japanese internet to report any such retailers, along with details of any illegal game downloads found on the web.
It's only in Japanese at the moment, but this is probably quite a good idea (from the perspective of pirated games, anyway) and will likely see interest on an international scale, too.
