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Nintendo Korea set to take legal action on pirates

Posted May 4th 2007 5:00PM by David Hinkle
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Nintendo's piracy woes continue as the latest news from Korea, which you may know "officially" received the DS back in January, shows that piracy fanatics have found ways to copy game cartridges with a special machine, posting the titles on the internet and selling them on discs. Nintendo announced that it plans on taking full legal action on anyone caught pirating its games, hopefully putting some scare into the folks responsible over there. Of course, if history is any indication, this will not be the case and those pirates will continue to do what they do.

See also: Yarrr (or, how to spot pirated games)

Tags: dslite, korea, lite, nintendo, nintendods, nintendodslite, piracy

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1. Pirates wear eye patches for night vision. Good luck is all I'll say.

Posted at 6:59PM on May 4th 2007 by hvnlysoldr

2. Flawless photoshopping :P

It's funny how Ninty are doing something about people pirating games in this way (selling copied cartridges), but so far I haven't heard anything about them trying to crack down on people using rewritable home-brew carts (i just woke up. proper terminology eludes me) and downloaded roms...

Is the element of someone else making a profit the motivating factor? Not flaming, just pondering.

Posted at 9:55PM on May 4th 2007 by Kefka

3. @2: Can't tackle someone for doing something not illegal. Things like the R4 are just shells, what a person does with them is their own choice. It's not like they can be done for not having a licence to develop for the DS either, datel have been doing that for years and years now. Unless they sell games with the R4, then Nintendo can't do shit because it's not making them loose money until people download roms from other parties to put on the machine which CAN be used for music, video and homebrew. It's an iffy subject, but Nintendo knows they'd be wasting money trying to take down flash cards.

Posted at 4:04AM on May 6th 2007 by ssuk

4. probably just not possible. homebrew capable carts in and of themselves are not illegal. they probably are smart enough to know that even if they could shut down a torrent site here or there, 10 others will pop up to take its place. the more nintendo tightens it's grip, the more star systems slips through its fingers.

Posted at 9:44AM on May 6th 2007 by JM

5. wheres that quote from? I remember hearing it but I get the feeling it was one of the SW ep. I-III films. And yeah, Datel should be murdered for doing stuff like that. Not for actually doing it, but fo making there products so fucking shite (Max Media Dock anyone?) and charging £60 for it. I bought one, discovered they weren't worth a PSX memory card, THEN found out that for about £20 less I could have bought an R4 and a 1GB mSD card. Which I promptly did.

Posted at 4:01PM on Jun 24th 2007 by FantomRedux

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