HappySqurriel said:
Mr Khan said:
manuel said:
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But can it tell the difference between legitimate (and perfectly legal) homebrew applications, and piracy?
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I'm afraid not.
The 3DS logs every game card you put into the system. I don't know how a flash card is displayed internally on the 3DS, but I'm sure it will not be recognized as an official game.
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Then all 3DS owners should know their rights, and everyone bricked (whether they were bricked for piracy or homebrew) should sue, to bog Nintendo down as revenge. Class-action preferred
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Realistically, if a company decided to brick someone`s system (which I think would be unlikely) they would probably do it in a way that they could argue that the unauthorized hardware used to steal games fundamentally altered the system; and it was the use of this hardware that "bricked" the system, not anything Nintendo did. Effectively, it is a similar argument to ones I have heard from car companies that refuse to do warrantee work on a car if certain aftermarket parts are installed.
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That argument is more acceptable, but only if use of flashcarts directly caused bricking. If they bricked as a discrete, after-the-fact punishment, that would put it into the realm of removing functionality the consumer paid for, whereas the former is an example of the consumer knowing the consequences and leading to the destruction of their own property.
Even that's still shaky ground, but then at least that would be a result of the functionality of the product, rather than a company intruding on your private property
