Police in the Aichi region of Japan arrested a vendor of majikon (or "magic computer") adapters, which allow users to run illegally duplicated games on gaming hardware.
The BBC reports that the adapters in question permitted users to read SD cards on Nintendo DS hardware. Selling majikon-type adapters violates an amendment to Japan’s Unfair Competition Prevention Act, as illegally downloaded games can be written onto the SD cards and run on the DS using the adapters. Nintendo says that it hopes the arrest will discourage the sale of other versions of majikon adapters.
Majikon adapters were outlawed years ago in Japan, but enforcement only began at the end of 2011, so sale of the adapters continued. Nintendo says this arrest is the first targeting a suspected vendor of the adapter.
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