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Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy

Posted by Soulskill on from the sorry-about-your-luck dept.

schliz writes "The Federal Court has ordered an Australian distributor to pay Nintendo over half a million dollars for selling the R4 mod chip, which allows users to circumvent technology protection measures in Nintendo's DS consoles. The distributor, RSJ IT Solutions, has been ordered to cease selling the chip through its gadgetgear.com.au site and any other sites it controls, as well as paying Nintendo $520,000 in damages."

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  1. Dear R4, by V!NCENT · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Dear R4,

    We are going to sue you because you make cardridges that fit into our Nintendo DS product that can read out images on MicroSD cards.

    We are unhappy with this because we are a company and we like to make as much money as we can and software pirates are abusing the functionality to run pirated copies of Nintendo DS games. Therefore we think that you need to pay us a shitload of money and not the people that pirate.

    Addholes as always,
    Nintendo Inc.

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