Legal or not, I've found the homebrew channel incredibly handy and a great solution for the deplorable failure of Nintendo to provide DVD support, which can be found on every non-Nintendo console of this generation and the last, Dreamcast excepted. Region-locking is also an issue which periodically screws people over across the world. I've never used the HBC for piracy and realise that, HBC or not, pirates always will find ways to get free games. Bricking the Wiis of owners who have, even if illegally, harmlessly enhanced their consoles without pirating is not the solution.