Nintendo ways up its battle towards piracy with a new lawsuit.Nintendo of America launched a lawsuit...

1. Nintendo sues console hacking website for Wii and Nintendo
DS piracy - National Console Gaming
Nintendo ways up its battle towards piracy with a new lawsuit.
Nintendo of America launched a lawsuit Wednesday in a Southern District of Florida court against
the owner of HackYourConsole.com for selling and offering unauthorized Nintendo video games and
memory cards and providers that circumvent Nintendo DS and Wii safety.
"The operator of HackYourConsole.com has designed a worldwide business enterprise targeted on
promoting unauthorized copies of Nintendo video games and game-copying units (such as the R4
gadget) employed to circumvent the technological safety measures contained in the Nintendo DS
family of hand-held programs," Nintendo wrote in the press release announcing the lawsuit. "The
web site operator, for a charge, also supplies providers to hack and modify the Wii console and allow
the perform of illegal software program."
The web page is also presently taking pre-orders for the "3DS Gateway card" which, like the R4
cards for the Nintendo 3DS, is meant to let users to play illegally downloaded or "backup copies" of
video games. The 3DS has still to be widely hacked like the Nintendo DS so it is in Nintendo's
greatest interest to not make it possible for the card out on the market.
"Piracy on the Nintendo DS system has a massive influence on video games income," mentioned
Jools Watsham, co-founder and director of Renegade Child. "It can impact absolutely everyone
concerned, such as the lots of truthful gamers out there. If independent studios, like ours, are unable
to recoup the funds they invest into game advancement, by the product sales of their video games,
we will however see fewer independent video games created in the long term."
Terms of the lawsuit have not yet been announced.
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