Nintendo Wins Lawsuit Over R4 Mod Chip Piracy

buchichuOP18 Feb 2010 · 15:03 UTC

http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/02/18/0646211/Nintendo-Wins-Lawsuit-Over-R4-Mod-Chip-Piracy

"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."

matty99955518 Feb 2010 · 15:12 UTC

That is wrong, the made the person to pirate New Super Mario Bros Wii pay way more. This would of caused way more damage and it was done for profit!

hmfan10 Mar 2010 · 07:27 UTC

The sad part of this is that it draws attention to flashcarts and other such ways of free games, so in a way this is Nintendo shooting themselves in the foot. As this will only result in more people knowing about flash carts and possibly using them. Every time you stomp one out ten more will pop up... So what now Nintendo? What now indeed.

Megaman_67017 Mar 2010 · 01:51 UTC

I wondered how long it would take for Nintendo to file a lawsuit against a flash cart. R4 was die'n anyway, so really they aren't gonna get much money

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