Another country deems the DS storage devices illegal to sell.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/23782
The popular R4 cards, which are widely used to play retail DS games illegitimately, are now illegal to be imported, sold, or advertised all throughout the UK, according to a recent ruling by a British high court judge.
The official decision is that the card is illegal because it thwarts Nintendo's security to play content. R4 and similar cards are used to play downloaded retail DS games as well as for homebrew purposes, the latter of which has been the main argument for their sale by supporters since homebrew software by itself doesn't involve piracy. The judge ruled that "the mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence."
"Nintendo initiates these actions not only on its own behalf, but also on behalf of over 1,400 video game-development companies that depend on legitimate sales of games for their survival," the company said in a statement. HMRC and Trading Standards have seized more than 165,000 copying devices in the UK since 2009.
While the court ruled against the defendant, Playables, Justice Flood dismissed two other complaints by Nintendo. Nintendo had argued that the shape of the cartridge itself was a copy protection mechanism and that the use of a digital version of their logo, which must be present for a game to boot, also constituted copyright infringement.
This case follows one in the Netherlands where 11 online retailers were sued for IP infringement, and is also part of a large-scale attack on piracy that Nintendo has been fighting for most of the life of the DS. The decision contrasts with recent rules set forth by the US Library of Congress, which explicitly allow users to bypass technical measures put in place by cell phone manufacturers in order to run unlicensed software.
Things that have legitimate uses should not be able to be banned, no matter how much potential they have to be used for illegal activities.
I agree this should *not* be illegal. It's really no different than jail breaking your iPhone or having a car that can go above the speed limit. Just because it *can* be used unlawfully, doesn't mean it has to be. Also, all this does is just make it take a couple more minutes to buy this kind of stuff online, make the prices go up, and make kids even less likely to pay for games.
So what? They're also much more accessible to anyone on the planet, and more people have CD and DVD players than DSes. If anything that makes them worse, since they're more of a "one size fits all" tool for piracy.
If you make backup copies of games you own and don't use ones you downloaded from the Internet, that's legal.
If you make backup copies of games you own and don't use ones you downloaded from the Internet, that's legal.
If you make backup copies of games you own and don't use ones you downloaded from the Internet, that's legal.
That is questionable at best and you know it.
There's nothing questionable about it.If you make backup copies of games you own and don't use ones you downloaded from the Internet, that's legal.
That is questionable at best and you know it.
People use R4 cus they can't afford games, ban R4 and they just won't buy games.
If you make backup copies of games you own and don't use ones you downloaded from the Internet, that's legal.
That is questionable at best and you know it.
Making backup copies of material you own is and has always been considered fair use. There's nothing questionable about it.
People use R4 cus they can't afford games, ban R4 and they just won't buy games.
So how did you afford a £100+ handheld games console in the first place?
I say if the R4 is banned, then blank CDs and DVDs should be banned too, and CD and DVD burners. No different than the R4 - sure you can make your own movies and back stuff up, but lets be honest here, no one's buying a 100 pack of DVD-Rs or CD-Rs because they have important documents that they need to archive, it's because they don't like paying for music and movies.
The real question is, what will they do to make sure this doesn't repeat on the 3DS? The firmware needs to be able to tell the difference between a real game card and a flashcard, and the card itself cannot be so easy to pirate. It's all well and good getting it outlawed, but it's a bit late now. Really, Nintendo should have clamped down on DS piracy years ago. It never should've gotten this out of hand. Fortunately, this was probably a big wake-up call to them, so I would expect them to be doing everything in their power to prevent this problem on the next handheld.I was listening to IGN Nintendo Voice Chat, and they said several 3rd parties were saying that the 3DS will be basically impossible to hack and run backups, unsigned code, etc. Kind of sucks because it would be awesome to have some 3D homebrew, but 3rd parties deserve to be paid for their efforts.
The PS3 has been hacked and was done so back in January.
Wow, that's a high price tag. I figured since I see Xbox 360 dev kits go for $700 tops, than a 3DS wouldn't be any more than that.
....The PS3 has been hacked and was done so back in January.
Links or it didn't happen.
I don't think they'll cost that much, especially if the system is going to retail for around the same price as the DSi...also, PS3 really hasn't been fully hacked. Sure GeoHot (and maybe a couple people close to him) managed to get OtherOS installed with the 3.21 update...but that's about it. You can run PS2 backups from a USB hard drive too, but that is only because of backwards compatibility (and being backwards compatible with Swap Magic DVDs), not really any hacks.
The PS3 has been hacked and was done so back in January.
One dude (the same dude that hacked the iPhone) hacked the PS3, but he hasn't shared the exploit yet.That dude has been mentioned (I even posted it on here back when it happened) and he hasn't really shared his "hack" like you said. I waiting on this "Hacked PS3" info that TJ was referring to since he makes it seem like the system has been open since January.
It's not as simple as that. Say someone wanted to make an SNES emulator that didn't play commercial ROMs - only demos and homebrew SNES games, but it was fully emulating the SNES hardware. Microsoft would say, "Hey go ask Nintendo," and Nintendo would say, "Hey, go eat a dick."
