Still doesn't make it fair to link them all together.

Let's just go ahead and say that everyone who buys a gun plans to shoot someone, or say that everyone who owns a steak knife plans to stab someone with it.

I won't say that I am 100% innocent, but my Wii is mainly used to allow me to watch DVDs, so I can save the laser on my PS3. I also have it so that I can watch those digital copies that come on DVDs or even some that I burn from DVD to my 500GB Wii HDD. 

I keep a large collection of horror movies on it. Friday the 13th collection, Nightmare on Elm Street, pretty much anything brutal. Yeah, call me sick, but I like it.

Want to get me for piracy, go ahead, blame me for creating Earthbound and FFVI channels on it, both of which aren't even available. Blame me for playing ScummVM games like Sam and Max, Day of the Tentacle and Fate of Atlantis, all of which I own on PC-CDROM and all of which will most likely never be available on the Wii. I figured they would work awesome with the Wiimote, so I went ahead and got them to work on their with homebrew apps like the Wii ScummVM channel.

I am sure that many people on this site do not understand the homebrew community in the slightest and choose to automatically associate it with piracy.

Many people use it for piracy, but not everyone. 

Want to call me a pirate, or a thief, or any of the other crazy names they come up with? Go ahead.

You know what I know? I know that I was smart enough to realize that I can get so much more out of my Wii and save myself plenty of cash and living room space by not having to buy alternate hardware or needing to have a PC in my living room hooked up to my TV. I just decided to soft mod my Wii.

someone needs to hurry up and make an overly elaborately crazy bombastic flamboyant flabbergasting ironic hellish awe-inspiring depressing saddening amazing joyous sarcastic assholish 4-player kiazo mario stage.

...that was a mouthfull 0.0

awesome

Yeah, that will probably keep you entertained for at least a few seconds.

It's absolutely different. Hacking your Wii in order to play burnt discs/games from a HDD is a LOT more complicated than just installing the Homebrew Channel.

It's essentially a three-step process. (1) Hack and install Homebrew Channel. (2) Use Homebrew Channel to install DVD-compatibility. (3) Unlock burnt-DVD game usage.

I just wanted my Wii to play movies on DVD, but I could never even get that step in the process to work. Without that step working, there's not a chance in hell I'd be able to get the rest to work.

Yet I used my Homebrew Channel on a regular basis, and I know dozens of other people that did as well. The homebrew scene on the Wii is absolutely marvelous, thanks to the unique controller and all the tinkering that people have done with it. Mario Paint Wii, anybody? Or maybe Quake Wii? Or any of the dozens of other cool projects that have come out of the homebrew scene?

No, piracy is actually an extremely small part of the homebrew scene on the Wii.

The wii makes beer, hell yes; now it is my favorite console!!!

The majority of PC users also use their PC for casual piracy at the very least (downloading MP3s illicitly being the most common activity). I guess we should ban open-ended platforms like the PC. Force everyone to use closed platforms like Mac. While we are at it, we should have the government take control of the internet. It's way too open-ended. You can use the internet for illegal things. And most people use the internet for illegal activity (casual piracy being the most common).

Bricking the wii is the one reason i don't use homebrew.

Heeeey, i dont think this is the ritgh place to post it, but does anyone know how i can install IOS 202 on my Wii? Im need it to play DVDs on the new media player (that, bty kicks the crap out of the old MPlayer).

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MPlayer_CE#DVD_and_USB_2.0_Support