User blog comment:Zaphod-sama/Xenophobic japanese game companies/@comment-11535939-20150130151831/@comment-25723053-20150130153737

Exactly, i kinda feel dumb for stating the obvious but it really is happening. i don't know if it was intended to be a safety measure for pirates but that doesn't really make sense or helps sinds pirates are everywhere.

I'm pretty sure that japanese themselves download games and other media illegal so yeah that wouldn't be very effective.