Phoenix Wright?

You rang?

@omgwtfbbq: more like they are just stopping people making tools designed for the theft of bread.(despite the fact that no such tools are needed, but that's because the bread analogy doesn't fit)

locking up the whole town would be equivalent to locking up the whole videogaming community (or at least all the developers...but no they would be the breadmakers?)

basically bread stealing doesnt fit.

what should have been is the Wii should be region free, which would give no excuses then (The chips would still be made, but only bought by people wanting to actually play pirate games, not by people who are trying to get games at the same time/price as Japan/USA)

So yes it is partly Nintendos fault that things like Wii-Key are as popular as they are.

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I thought it might be something like that with Brasil - Brazil.....i often try to use the British way of large numbers instead of the American, but everyone gets confused.
1 Billion in American = 1,000,000,000 (or one thousand million) [1X10^9]
1 Billion in British = 1,000,000,000,000 (or one million million) [1X10^12]

1 Trillion in American = 1,000,000,000,000 (or one million million) [1X10^12]
1 Trillion in British = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 (or one million million million) [1X10^18]

although at least Brazil and Brasil are not so different as to confuse (except isnt there a city in Brasil called Brazil)

And Nintendo was able to raid a modchip factory because...?

I don't know much about hong kong law.

Just because something is illegal doesn't mean it's just. I never claimed that Nintendo's raid was illegal, just that there are plenty of legal uses for mod chips and this should be allowed.

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. 

"Plenty" of legal uses you say? Name 10.