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Well, it was bound to happen somewhere.
Nintendo's effort to further eradicate the rampant software piracy on the DS seems to have paid off again this week as the London's High Court has ruled that the sale, advertising and import of any DS copying devices such as flashcarts is now totally illegal in the UK. Acording to UK gaming site Develop, "the high court set a new precedent by adjudging that it is illegal for the R4 card to circumvent Nintendo’s security systems in order to play content on the DS. This ruling impacts on emulator owners who have hitherto insisted that playing homebrew games on the DS is not piracy."After the ruling, Nintendo released an official statement regarding the matter and said:“Nintendo promotes and fosters game development and creativity, and strongly supports the game developers who legitimately create new and innovative applications. 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 survivalâ€.Nintendo claims they've seized over 100,000 game copying devices in the UK alone since 2009.
Source - QJ.netI'm surprised at this, since a while back, a French judge stated that flashcarts were legal since they were said to use homebrew and nothing more for the most part...but I guess Nintendo has ways of pulling strings in the government as well...
UK aren't really the first ;D My country had banned all DS/DSi flashcarts for up to 3 years from now and they will fine you ;D
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First one that I heard of. :P
Hold on.
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I'm kidding >:D My country just banned only the DS and DSi flashcarts to be sell in shops but you can still buy them on the internet
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Same thing as the UK, then.
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Then the law is just to scare people ...
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Yes, but it is a step towards a totally different future. If the UK can pass it, then, who knows how many more European countries will follow suit.
http://forum.romulation.net/index.php?topic=45499.0
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unqiueninja · #6Then the law is just to scare people ...
Laws are not passed to actually scare people as you so thought. If they were I'm pretty sure the masses will not approve of it & it will be up to the masses to put a stop to it. Laws are often enacted to curb a certain problem, if at all a major one arises.
