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Nintendo Cracks Down on Copying Devices

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the protecting-your-interests dept.

Adrian Lopez writes "Nintendo is cracking down on mod chips and copying devices with the help of the Hong Kong government. 'The Hong Kong High Court has intervened, at Nintendo's request, to help stop a global distribution operation involving game copying devices and modification chips that violate the copyrights and trademarks of Nintendo DS and Wii. On Oct. 8th, the court ordered the raid of Supreme Factory Limited facilities, through which Nintendo representatives seized more than 10,000 game copying devices and mod chips over the course of three days. The devices seized are used to copy and play Nintendo DS games offered unlawfully over the Internet, and the mod chips allow the play of pirated Wii discs or illegal copies of downloaded Nintendo games.'"

11 of 361 comments (clear)

  1. Slashdot 10 year Party? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't help but notice that every article on the Main Page has been posted by ScuttleMonkey...where did everyone else go? Was there a party last night that Scuttlemonkey wasn't invited to?

  2. Misread that.. by EveryNickIsTaken · · Score: 5, Funny
    Heh. I misread the first sentence as:

    Nintendo is cracking down on mod chips and copying devices with the help of the Donkey Kong government. Need more coffee.
  3. Re:Speaking of scrathed disks by FlopEJoe · · Score: 3, Funny

    For the adult stuff my wife and I

    Your lucky... I wish my GF liked pr0n :(

  4. Re:What kind of excuse is this? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... we even replaced the one with a bullet hole in it.
    Thanks. I've always been wondering how those holes in my CD's got there.

  5. Re:Speaking of scrathed disks by Kiuas · · Score: 4, Funny

    Your lucky... I wish my GF liked pr0n :( Your lucky, this is Slashdot after all... Most of us just wish we had a girlfriend :(
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    "It is the business of the future to be dangerous" -Alfred North Whitehead
  6. Re:Booo! by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Please provide a method on how to backup my TV, my couch, my oven, etc, so when I'm robbed I'm good to go.

    Good point. I am now ripping the tape drive out of my server because if I can't make backups of my kitchen table then I shouldn't be allowed to make backups of my home directory.

    Does your logic truly make sense to you, or are you just being an ass for the sake of it?

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    Dewey, what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?
  7. Re:But they wont achive much by im+just+cannonfodder · · Score: 2, Funny

    I need someone to mod my wii in the uk so i can let my kids play the wii before i come home from work without the fear of the discs getting totalled!

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  8. "Nintendo Representatives" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    More commonly known in the Hong Kong and Chicago underground as "Goombas".

    (How do they get from Chicago to Hong Kong so fast? Pipes, my friend. Pipes.)

  9. Re:But they wont achive much by flitty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does duct-taping 2 gamecubes together count as modding?

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    Whether or not there is some sort of god, I'm not supposed to say/god is a word and the argument ends there-Smog
  10. Come on! This can't be real! by urcreepyneighbor · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Supreme Factory"? Did the HK police have to fight the "Final Boss", too?!

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    "The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
  11. Why didn't they by AntiRush · · Score: 2, Funny

    just brick all the modded Wii's?