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hehey on 06 March 2011

Stop whining, if you dont want your 3DS bricked then dont pirate, is that really too much to ask?



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Mr Khan on 06 March 2011
hehey said:

Stop whining, if you dont want your 3DS bricked then dont pirate, is that really too much to ask?

But can it tell the difference between legitimate (and perfectly legal) homebrew applications, and piracy? If not, this is frightfully illegal and every bricked console will have to be challenged in the court of law.



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megaman79 on 06 March 2011

I own shares, so I aint bothered.



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manuel on 06 March 2011
Mr Khan said:

But can it tell the difference between legitimate (and perfectly legal) homebrew applications, and piracy?


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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Mr Khan on 06 March 2011
manuel said:
Mr Khan said:

But can it tell the difference between legitimate (and perfectly legal) homebrew applications, and piracy?


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.

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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dunno001 on 06 March 2011

Good, I hope this is all true. A system unable to boot makes it harder to get a "patch" to run on it and "fix" it. It may not seem nice, but the pirates have brought it on themselves. And at least in the USA, it's all perfectly legal under the DMCA. And it'd be easy enough to say that it was "unauthorized software" that caused the problem in other areas...



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manuel on 06 March 2011
Mr Khan said:
manuel said:
Mr Khan said:

But can it tell the difference between legitimate (and perfectly legal) homebrew applications, and piracy?


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.

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

As I said before... I really believe that Nintendo won't brick consoles, exactly for the reason you mentioned. It would get them a lot of trouble in the form of lawsuits.

I'm sure they'll think of some form of sanction, but probably not very drastic.



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HappySqurriel on 06 March 2011
Mr Khan said:
manuel said:
Mr Khan said:

But can it tell the difference between legitimate (and perfectly legal) homebrew applications, and piracy?


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.

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


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.



AussieGecko on 06 March 2011

hmm Ms seems to be now the only one that is going to pirates "it it happens it happens" Sony and Nintendo are fighting like hell, kudos to them, and I hope they win



 

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Khuutra on 06 March 2011
dunno001 said:

Good, I hope this is all true. A system unable to boot makes it harder to get a "patch" to run on it and "fix" it. It may not seem nice, but the pirates have brought it on themselves. And at least in the USA, it's all perfectly legal under the DMCA. And it'd be easy enough to say that it was "unauthorized software" that caused the problem in other areas...

You  can't be serious. The legitimate homebrew scene on the Wii, for example, is enormous - I've never seen a console have a more interesting or more focused homebrew community. The Brawl mods alone.... neverminding the import scene being so improved by the ability to integrate fan translations and the like.

This does too much damage to legitimate but unusual customers.