'R4' Nintendo DS Flash Card Outlawed in UK

Nintendo is criminalising a huge amount of gameshops around the world in regards to R4 and other flashcards.

Ever since game developers started 'blackmailing' them, they turned around and started backstabbing the people that IMHO helped them retain their nr. 1 position in the world and make Hiroshi Yamauchi the richest man in japan.

Nintendo never, since the SNES?, made any serious efforts to apply real security measures.
Because they understood very well how to sell huge amounts of consoles by secretely allowing this for years and years. So by turning a blind eye for all those years it has made them an accomplice.

Heck for all we know they might even have been whispering crack/hack solutions in somebodies Ear. With lightning speed almost every new console released was bypassed already before they started shipping some serious numbers around the world.

Since they cannot get to the factories in China and are shitscared for image damage to confront their customers with their behaviour, they started demonising the middle men.

That Nintendo has made you a coward and hypocrite !

1) A little late, 6 years after the release of the DS and with the new 3DS on our doorstep. Would this also apply to future devices?

2) Strange ruling in light of the recent U.S. ruling that hacking the iPhone to run non-Apple-approved software is not illegal. In the case of the R4 cards the DS itself isn't even modified.

'Hard Disk Drives' and 'The Internet' Outlawed in UK.

who cares.

First they came for the music-pirates, and I said nothing, for I was not a audiophile

Next they game for the movie-pirates, and I said nothing, for I was not a cinema-buff

Then they came for the game-pirates, and nothing was said, because we were all that was left.

I'm suprised this makes front page news. There was a time when just mentioning the device in the comments would get you nuked.

Okay.

I'm sure that will have a tremendous impact.

All am I going to say is Thank You.

This won't make a bit of difference because all those stolen games wouldn't have been bought in the first place, right?

While I praise Nintendo and the UK for trying to do something about the piracy, the net result of this law will just change market forces and ultimately hurt retailers.

http://defacil.shackspace.com/supdemand.png

but then how will UK gamers ever play the newest Petz games? Its too embarrassing to walk into the store and actually buy them?

This is sad for UK.

They are quickly moving towards a very oppressive regim.... err government.

I don't foresee any super UK Internet Spec Ops teams infiltrating the homebrew internet community, locating their where abouts and setting up raids to take their r4s. Just some scare tactics, and if they happen to nab a few pirates downloading games, they can claim its because of the awesome effective new law.
When gov'ts try to scare you and make you paranoid about everything, eventually you become immune, and laws like this isn't likely to stop people doing things that were probably wrong in the 1st place, it's just now the gov't will be able to make some money off it as well as the companies that manage to catch the few that get caught.

Wowzers, I'm anti "the man" this morning lol