Nintendo Penalizing Homebrew Users?

An anonymous reader writes "Bricked your Wii? Not only will Nintendo charge you for the repair, they will now add an additional fee if they detect any homebrew software. 'Should Nintendo have to pay to repair hacked Wiis under warranty? Maybe not, but they have no (moral) right to gouge customers out of spite for having the HBC installed. This actually poses a technical dilemma for us with BootMii. As currently designed, BootMii looks for an SD card when you boot your Wii, and if it finds the card and the right file, it will execute that file. Otherwise, there's no way to tell it's installed.'"

Comments

This would be like

[Norsefire]

Microsoft charging more if they discover Ubuntu on a separate partition.

Re:This would be like

[LordKronos]

unless you consider the Zune a computer (which you can).

Yeah, but if you've install Ubuntu on a separate partition on your Zune:
1) Congrats
2) Why?

Re:Sorry, no deal

[EdIII]

There ain't enough money in the WORLD!

Really? Seriously?

A lot of people say that (and I hate MS as much as anybody), but if I was offered even the insult of $1,000,000 USD to install Windows 7 .............. I have a feeling that there will be a few machines with Windows 7 on it.

Then I would hire a few dozen Japanese hotties with pig-tails and school girl outfits to do all of my actual work on other machines and I would just have to *suffer* through it. At least when I get pissed off at the Windows 7 machine when it starts screwing up (inevitably of course) I can have a bunch of my "employees" come in sucking lollipops to give me my "tech support".

Ohhhhh, and I am sure some of that $$$$ will be used to buy several well placed poles in my office......

Re:You doubt. Never a good sign

[Hognoxious]

I do speak german and softwarehack is NOT a german word

Thought so, it's nowhere near long enough.