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Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy
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."
...likely because someone was waiting to explicitly do it. -1 for not hitting preview before posting -_-;;
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Yeah I totally agree, but the fact remains that the R4 is pretty much used exclusively to pirate games. I know three people that have them and none of them use it for anything except playing downloaded ROMs. Maybe my sample is biased, but I suspect it's probably not. If there were an easy (read that as monetarily cheap and fast) way to punish just those people using it for piracy then I'm sure Nintendo would prefer to do that. I guess their point is that people are making money of a device than can, in theory, be used for legal reasons but is in fact being used almost toally for piracy.
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