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UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal
CheShACat writes "A UK high court ruled today that R4 cards for the Nintendo DS are illegal, finding two vendors guilty of selling 'game copiers.' The ruling by Justice Floyd is quoted as saying, 'The economic effect on Nintendo of the trade in these devices is substantial as each accused device can store and play copies of many Nintendo DS games [...] The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence.' No word in the article as to what law in particular they were found to have broken, nor of the penalty the vendors are facing, but this looks like bad news for all kinds of hardware mod, on any platform, that would enable homebrew users to bypass vendor locks."
Nintendo won a related lawsuit in the Netherlands recently, in addition to the one in Australia earlier this year.
Why don't you hurr durr about something more constructive?
Fuck you.
Seriously, how many people out of say 100 are buying an R4 card with the intention of homebrew coding only... WAKE UP.
99% of buyers just want to steal games, nothing else. Yes, yes, dangerous precedent an' all that but in this case i agree with the courts!
*FACEPALM*
Guns for hunting/murder.
Hunting _IS_ murder ...
So is eating meat. Should we start arresting anyone who eats fried chicken?
Well mostly that would be niggers.
during last night's marathon session of Starcraft 2: Liberty (the RELOADED release)
You know, you can say you pirate things because it's a civil matter. However if you out what you pirate, like in this case, the copyright holders can sue you. You have already admitted you pirated and seeded the newest Starcraft 2, so I have personally wrote to the copyright holders to let them know that and everyone should do the same.
The addresses to contact are
Blizzard: https://us.blizzard.com/support/webform.xml?locale=en_US
Activision: http://www.activision.com/index.html#contact|en_US
BSA: https://reporting.bsa.org/usa/internet/edit.aspx
FBI: https://tips.fbi.gov/