Frasman said:
omgwtfbbq said:
BenKenobi88 said:
Yeah...you can make the argument that modchips allow independents to make games and allow for other legal uses...but everyone knows almost everybody uses them to pirate games. |
Doesn't matter. CD/DVD burners have many legal uses but many people use it to circumvent copyright. Does this mean that they should be illegal? DeCSS is required for me to play DVDs on Linux, but it can also be used to strip the encryption from DVD movies and copy them. Does this mean it should be illegal? When copyright infringement is illegal, why do we have to make the process illegal too? I could understand why it would make sense if its SOLE purpose was to perform illegal activities, but there is just too many legal uses to just say "most people do this". We don't have any usage statistics. So then suck it up. Catch the people actually doing illegal things. It's all good for you who lives in America to say "well who cares about mod chips, they're all a bunch of pirates anyway" but you'd be feeling different if you were still waiting for Metroid like we are, if you didn't get Zack & Wiki until December, if you didn't get SMG until three weeks after everyone else has played it. If you had to wait FIVE MONTHS for Super Paper Mario. And then you had to pay almost double for the privilage. You'd be singing a very different tune if you got our treatment. And yes, I have a WiiKey in my Wii, and it's going to pay for itself when I import Zack & Wiki 2 months earlier than I'd get it and for AU$40 cheaper Nintendo bring it on themselves by having region coding in the first place. |
You own a Nintendo Wii, hence you have to abide by Nintendo's user agreement. Installing a mod chip, for whatever reason, is in conflict with that agreement. Nintendo has every right to enforce this issue. |
That doesn't cut the mustard I'm afraid. Law here in Australia is that region encoding is anti-consumer and consumers (that would be me) have every legal right to modify their hardware to use software from a different region (that would be, installing a mod chip), and Nintendo have no legal right to interfere with me, no matter what Nintendo's user agreement says (which are legally questionable at best, even in places where they don't contradict law).
Of course, there's nothing stopping them from cracking down on production of mod chips in countries in which they are illegal, so long as they ARE illegal in those countries (I don't know the law in Hong Kong, so no comment). I never said what they did was illegal. I just said that it pissed me off that they are going after the mod chips rather than the software pirates, since mod chips have legal uses and ownership of one does not necessarily mean the user is doing something illegal.
