Everyone’s so caught up in these days of computer forensics and forensic science in solving the mystery of murder, such as those seen in the TV series CSI. But computer forensics is not all murder and police dramas. There is much more necessary for those reasons in the industry, and a very interesting case came in recent times associated with the company Nintendo.

When he noticed the recent news story from Australia, I was surprised to find that U.S. and Japanese video game company was taking action to serve the Australian people, which violated international and U.S. and Australian copyright laws. After an Australian store game accidentally released a new Super Mario Brothers game for its Wii system, six days before Nintendo has planned a global release, the 24-year-old Australian named James Burt broke the code of the game and illegally downloaded a game on the Internet that allows thousands to download the game illegal on their computers without paying Nintendo any money. This may be cost Nintendo millions of dollars.

So how did Nintendo hunt down Mr. Burt of hundreds of millions of computer users around the world, millions in Australia, who in your area to find out that he was one who illegally download a game? They used computer forensics specialists, trained to track the traces of the Internet to find the source of downloaded games.

Nintendo’s forensic specialists who were trained in the top computer forensics programs were able to trace all the processes of loading the game from the beginning. When found the original download, download to trace the time and IP-address. With the help of a computer program tracking forensics, IP address Mr. Burt was consistent with his whereabouts, and he was detained by local law enforcement agencies.
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