A man in Shizuoka City was arrested on suspicion of violating the Copyright Act (distribution of pirated copies) by copying and selling "Nobunaga's Ambition," "Mikokushi," and 34 other titles without permission.

Miyagi Prefectural Police arrested a 45-year-old man from Shizuoka City on suspicion of violating the Copyright Act (distribution of pirated copies) for selling recording media containing unauthorized copies of "Nobunaga's Ambition," "Mikunioshi" and 34 other game software titles produced and sold by Koei Tecmo Games.

In addition to 34 titles from Koei Tecmo Games, including "Nobunaga's Ambition" and "Mikuni: The Legend of the Three Kingdoms," the man copied several other companies' copyrighted game software onto a micro SD card without permission, listed the names of several game consoles on the auction site, and explained that "a large number of retro games can be played, The counterfeit games were sold as a set with the counterfeit game console.

Koei Tecmo Games "determined that the act of duplicating and selling multiple game software titles without authorization was extremely malicious and filed a complaint with the Miyagi Prefectural Police," leading to the suspect's arrest.