Nintendo DS R4 cards ruled illegal

Hammyman

So, Angiewoo, as you bleated on about being law abiding, will you be disposing of yours or will you still be asking us for ROM download sites?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10790835

A High Court has ruled that devices that allow gamers to play pirated video games are illegal in the UK.

The ruling specifically targets a range of popular devices which can be used to store and play copied games on the Nintedo DS handheld console.

The ruling says "game copiers" are illegal to import, advertise and sell in the UK.

The defendants - Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan - had argued that they allow gamers to play home-made games.

"The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence," read the ruling by Justice Floyd.

Nintendo said it was "pleased that the court was not persuaded by the defendant's arguments, claiming that game copiers are lawful, as they allow for the play of 'homebrew' applications".

"The court affirmed that game copiers first circumvent Nintendo's security systems before any non-infringing application can be played on Nintendo's handheld products," it said in a statement.

Playables Limited and Mr Chan did not respond to requests for comment.

weegie.geek

Not sure trolling Angiewoo was necessary.

These being illegal wouldn't stop me buying one. Like most of these kind of things, they only annoy people intending to use them for legal reasons. People intending to use them to play downloaded roms already by definition don't care about the legality of what they're doing.

marleyboy

A good post, but would it not have been better posted in the other thread?

Steve-o

weegie.geek wrote: »

Not sure trolling Angiewoo was necessary.

These being illegal wouldn't stop me buying one.

Why would it stop you? According to the report, it's not illegal to buy or own one.

tronator

Hammyman wrote: »

"The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence," read the ruling by Justice Floyd.

What a stupid statement. Let's ban all CD/DVD writers then...

kwikbreaks

marleyboy wrote: »

A good post, but would it not have been better posted in the other thread?

I already posted it in the other thread yesterday....

BTW - the rules are still the same on not discussing stuff that is illegal....

KillerWatt

tronator wrote: »

What a stupid statement. Let's ban all CD/DVD writers then...

Exactly what I was thinking.

IIRC the R4 was originally sold as a device to turn the DS in to a media centre, the fact it has the ability to read & copy ROM data is neither here nor there.

marleyboy

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I already posted it in the other thread yesterday....

BTW - the rules are still the same on not discussing stuff that is illegal....

I was of course referring to the OP Hammyman, unless this is one of your Ae's?

23n1th

What a waste of server space. This was covered in another thread and Hammyman is just trolling.

kwikbreaks

marleyboy wrote: »

I was of course referring to the OP Hammyman, unless this is one of your Ae's?

Sorry but that has gone right over my head and I've no idea what you mean.

WRT to what I meant - I was agreeing that the best place for the reference to the new legal ruling is in the original thread and saying that in fact I posted a link to it in there yesterday.

I was also reminding posters about the forum rules on not discussing these things.

marleyboy

Quite right, the original post was deleted by the team for those very reasons