Piracy on the DS, look at that not just the pc!

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#1 blackdreamhunk
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http://kotaku.com/5044010/capcom-explain-r4-lawsuit-participation

In case you missed it, Nintendo and 54 other companies are engaged in a legal battle against the forces of evil. Evil being the R4 cart for the DS. One of those 54 other companies is Capcom, and in a conference call they explained the reason behind their participation in the suit:

There are companies that sell downloads without any license in the U.S.A., while a considerable number of pirated copies of game software are available in the Chinese market. In response to these situations, this lawsuit took the initiative for the whole industry in terms of taking countermeasures. It does not necessarily have a great effect at this stage, but we intend to send a wake-up call to such companies in the future.

That last line's interesting. Particularly if you're involved with the R4 - or other similar devices - and your boots were previously shaking. Their heart's not really in it!

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#2 diped
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Theres nothing they can do about it anyway really. The makers can just claim the carts are used for unillegal content, and that the piracy takes place by the consumer. And you know they can't come after each individual person, it just wouldn't be cost feasible. The only thing they could potentially do, is go after the groups who dump the roms, but even then its so easy to do it that anyone could do it, and it just wouldn't get them anywhere.
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#3 WAIW
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It's to be expected, if you have an R4 you can get any and every DS game on the market for free.
Personally I hope they'll win.
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#4 DaBrainz
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It's still not as accessible as PC pirating, but yeah its out there.
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#5 fabz_95
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Many of my friends have an R4 and I don't get why Nintendo can't just shut down the main website

Sure there are 1000's of websites selling the R4 but can't they at least shut down the official website?

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#6 EuroMafia
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Quick, buy a crapload of them, then sell it on ebay for 3x the price.
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Quick, buy a crapload of them, then sell it on ebay for 3x the price.EuroMafia

:lol:!

Good one

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#8 NielsNL
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It's still not as accessible as PC pirating, but yeah its out there.DaBrainz

I wouldn't say that. Here in the Netherlands every soccer mom knows someone to mod their children's DS's and Wii's..

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#9 feryl06
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time to start looking into these R4 stuff.... ;)
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[QUOTE="DaBrainz"]It's still not as accessible as PC pirating, but yeah its out there.NielsNL

I wouldn't say that. Here in the Netherlands every soccer mom knows someone to mod their children's DS's and Wii's..

its like 10 times easier than pc pirating. i cant go into specifics, but you dont have to do ANYTHING. oh well i guess that is specific.