{"id":68,"date":"2006-02-17T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T21:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/68"},"modified":"2015-11-23T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T15:15:40","slug":"egm-advetisement-sell-famiclones-go-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/68\/egm-advetisement-sell-famiclones-go-to-prison","title":{"rendered":"EGM Advertisement: Sell Famiclones, Go to Prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"caption\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/piracy_ad\/piracy_ad_large_1.jpg\" target=\"new\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/piracy_ad\/piracy_ad_small_1.jpg\" alt=\"EGM Piracy Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption_text\">I found this interesting ad in the March 2006 issue of <em>Electronic Gaming Monthly<\/em> today.  It says that as part of Yonathan Cohen&#8217;s restitution for selling &#8220;the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powerplayerusa.com\/\" target=\"new\">POWER PLAYER<\/a>&#8221; Famicom clone, he had to publish this advertisement warning others about &#8220;the dangers and penalties associated with violating the copyrights laws.&#8221;  According to the ad, the Power Player console contains &#8220;over 40 copyrighted games belonging to Nintendo of America.&#8221;  Sweet!  Ahem.  I mean&#8230;<em>Let that be a lesson to ya, Yonathan, and let this be a dire warning to any other scallywag who be sellin&#8217; the POWER PLAYERS on the open market!<\/em>  Heed ye not the old pirate&#8217;s warning and Nintendo will relentlessly hunt you down until all of your pathetic, filthy kind are eradicated from the face of the earth.  Of course, I&#8217;m being sarcastic.  But Nintendo&#8217;s not.  They <em>will<\/em> kill you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interesting ad in the March 2006 issue of Electronic Gaming Monthly today. It says that as part of Yonathan Cohen&#8217;s restitution for selling &#8220;the POWER PLAYER&#8221; Famicom clone, he had to publish this advertisement warning others about &#8220;the dangers and penalties associated with violating the copyrights laws.&#8221; According to the ad, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21,27,19],"tags":[301,299,285,295,300,298,143,242,294,296,60,297],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nes-famicom","category-news-current-events","category-regular_features","category-new-retro-reproductions","tag-301","tag-clone","tag-copyright","tag-egm","tag-famiclone","tag-famicom","tag-nintendo","tag-piracy","tag-power-player","tag-prison","tag-retro-scan","tag-yonathan-cohen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}