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sourcename=Ryu Shoji | | sourcename=Ryu Shoji | | ||
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tagline=A 27- | tagline=Man linked to Sept. 1 images | | ||
blurb=A 27-year-old Japanese man has been arrested for leaking Pokémon from the October edition of CoroCoro magazine. }} | |||
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Chikusei City police have arrested a Japanese man for distributing images of new Pokémon before their official release. | |||
27-year-old company employee Matoko Sekiguchi has been charged with using his mobile phone to photograph then-unreleased Pokémon and sharing them online. The incident, which took place on Sept. 1, involved six pictures of {{p|Janovy}}, {{p|Chaobu}} and {{p|Futachimaru}}. The three Pokémon were scheduled to release seventeen days later in {{game|Black and White|s}}. | |||
Although police did not release the source of the images, they did confirm that the images were from the October issue of {{bp|CoroCoro}} | The images were found on a "cyber patrol". Although police did not release the source of the images, they did confirm that the images were from the October issue of {{bp|CoroCoro}} magazine, which was due out on 15th September 2010. CoroCoro often leaks ahead of its release, but not usually two weeks in advance. | ||
Of his intent, Sekiguchi said: | |||
{{quote|cat=no|I thought I would show everyone the characters that haven't been made public yet.|Makoto Sekiguchi}} | {{quote|cat=no|I thought I would show everyone the characters that haven't been made public yet.|Makoto Sekiguchi}} | ||
==Information== | ==Information== | ||
* [http://www. | * [http://www.47news.jp/CN/201011/CN2010110201000985.html 47NEWS] (Japanese) |
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