What about proxies? Is it illegal to look at a friends card, remember the information, and write it down on a piece of cardboard? Could you be arrested for making a deck of these pieces of cardboard and playing a game with them?

C'mon now, there's a huge difference between making a proxy and creating a public, online gaming service using trademark content. There are laws in place to prevent people from just outright stealing content someone's made and doing whatever they want with it, which is exactly what DN does.

Think of it like those blatant copy movies you see in Redbox. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo comes out, but right next to it is, The Guy with the Lizard Decal on His Car. That's pretty stupid, but it's legal. It's their own content, no matter how bad it is or who it's influenced by.

What DN does is look at The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and say, "Man, I don't like how expensive the movie is. And it's just as expensive online! Let's copy the movie and just give it away for free on our site."

That's pirating, plain and simple. Every person who goes to DN instead of buying a card or signing up for an (albeit crummy) Konami service is stolen profits.

If DN wants to make their own card game, with their own artwork, and rules similar to YuGiOh? Let them go to town. But they can't just steal shit. I get that it's "advertising," but there's no way to tell how many people just go to DN instead of buying cards.

Should sites like DN encourage Konami to develop some actually good online services? yea, of course. But that's no excuse for DN to be just flat-out stealing content. The faster sites like this go down, the better.