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Nintendo sues console hacking website for Wii and Nintendo DS piracy - National Console Gaming
1. Nintendo sues console hacking website for Wii and Nintendo
DS piracy - National Console Gaming
Nintendo steps up its fight against piracy with a new lawsuit.
Nintendo of America launched a lawsuit Wednesday in a Southern District of Florida court against
the proprietor of HackYourConsole.com for promoting and promoting unauthorized Nintendo games
and memory cards and companies that circumvent Nintendo DS and Wii security.
"The operator of HackYourConsole.com has formulated a international business enterprise centered
on marketing unauthorized copies of Nintendo video games and game-copying gadgets (this kind of
as the R4 device) utilised to circumvent the technological protection measures contained in the
Nintendo DS household of hand-held programs," Nintendo wrote in the press release announcing the
lawsuit. "The website operator, for a fee, also provides providers to hack and modify the Wii console
and let the play of unlawful application."
The site is also now taking pre-orders for the "3DS Gateway card" which, like the R4 cards for the
Nintendo 3DS, is meant to allow end users to perform illegally downloaded or "backup copies" of
games. The 3DS has however to be widely hacked like the Nintendo DS so it is in Nintendo's very
best curiosity to not allow the card out on the market place.
"Piracy on the Nintendo DS technique has a substantial effect on games revenue," mentioned Jools
Watsham, co-founder and director of Renegade Kid. "It can have an impact on all people involved,
which include the lots of sincere gamers out there. If independent studios, like ours, are unable to
recoup the funds they invest into game growth, through the sales of their video games, we will
however see fewer independent games designed in the long term."
Terms of the lawsuit have not nonetheless been announced.
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