The Federal Court of Australia busted distributor RSJ IT Solutions (fancy name) for selling the R4 mod chip. Now the company has to pay Nintendo $520,000 in damages and an additional $100,000 in penalties. Also, naturally, they were ordered to stop selling the R4 mod chip device.
Wow. Australia has to be the most dangerous place ever to pirate videogames. Just last week we told you about another person in Australia that was ordered by the same court to pay Nintendo $1.5 million dollars for ripping and uploading New Super Mario Bros Wii.
I get that Nintendo is out to get pirates, but it seems like Australia is happy to play along.
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9:40 AM on 02.18.2010
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First: The japanese company who used to manufacture the R4 doesn't exist anymore (got shut down by Nintendo), all R4s in market these days are cheap knock-offs, so they're piracying piracy
Second (and most important): The R4 sucks, there much better flashcards out there, for homebrew (or piracy) purposes.
I find it neat that an R4 distributor who speculatively could have been responsible for thousands of instances of infringement gets $520k, while a guy in his home who speculatively distributed (no proof as to how many sources of the file, his contribution, or even if he uploaded) one Wii game gets $1.5m charged. Neat as in... irrational, arbitrary, and bullshit.
My R4 doesn't get much use nowadays as DS game library has gone from 90% Shovelware with 10% gems to 100% shovelware and 'DS is still selling?' Oh and the occasional Zelda, of course.
ur doing DS games wrong
More like Nintendo is doing DS games wrong.
Why are the lawyers flexing their powers now??
Nintendo are probably aiming for Aus because we have archaic copy laws. Its only recently we can legally make an MP3 copy of a CD. And only one, which we have to delete after listening to it.