http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/ Engadget Comments for R4 card provider ordered to pay Nintendo over $500,000 in damages http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
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But seriously, does Ninty really think this'll stop pirates? Pirates will always find a way, and above all that, this is hurting the homebrew community more than anything. They will never be able to shut everyone down, or fine every company making or selling these.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 6:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 7:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Acekard rulez. Seriously, what was Nintendo thinking back then? Did they expect people to walk around with a waist bag will 30 games stuffed in it like it's 1988?]]>Feb 22nd 2010 7:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 10:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
Beats carting 30 UMD's.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 6:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 7:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Since copyrights have existed. Nintendo has patents on their input plugs / slots / drives. Anyone wanting to sell compatible hardware has to get approved by Nintendo and pay royalties. Do you think Nintendo only makes money off the games and systems they make? Any company that makes anything for a Nintendo system be it games / controllers / or something else pays Nintendo money. Not because they like Nintendo but because its Nintendo's right to demand it.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
How are homebrew games at all illegal?..]]>Feb 22nd 2010 7:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Homebrew games aren't illegal. As long the developer follows the rules laid out for them they can sell games. It's just some systems have harder rules than others.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/its not.
however, you forget that Nintendo has a truck load of lawyers]]>Feb 22nd 2010 1:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
I have already bought a Wii (4 pads + nunchucks + motion plus + wii fit + 12 games), 3 DS's (20 games), a nintendo 64 (25 games), 2 gameboy sp's (20 games), a gameboy micro and a gameboy pocket (10 games).

Nintendo can suck my arse if they want any more money.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 6:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
I think the manufacturer is based in China. The company being sued here is a distributor... I think. Engadget's use of the term "provider" is weird and ambiguous.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 9:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 24th 2010 4:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 7:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
its very strange when compared to the kid fined 1.5 million for uploading one wii game . . . .]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
too bad that one Wii game, super mario bros, was and still is the wii's best seller.

Bad choice of "one game" to upload.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
Nintendo, how about you leave the modders alone and go after ROM distribution sites instead? They are both a huge waste of time, but at least it's not affecting those of us that just want to listen to music on our DSes.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
I agree. Imagine if Big-N sold a microSD compatible cartridge that allowed you to purchase games online and download them to your DS. I could see an online store like DSiShop making lots of money if it sold full games.

To prevent piracy, they could give each cartridge a unique serial which you register to your account (much like iPods and iTunes). When you download games on your account, it could be encrypted for that cartridge serial only.

I know the DSi Shop has game downloads, but until you can purchase and download full retail games, we're pretty much stuck lugging around numerous cartridges just to have all our games with us. Lots of people would be happy to re-buy games if they could carry all of their games (or at least a bunch of their favorites) on one cartridge. Big-N could make millions!

In the meantime however, I'm going to stick to backing up my games on my CycloDS so I can leave the cartridges at home.]]>Feb 22nd 2010 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Is there no DMCA equivalent in Australia?
Maybe that's why they're only going after this one company?]]>Feb 22nd 2010 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Mar 4th 2010 6:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 22nd 2010 9:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Feb 25th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/
Count your blessings Nintendo!]]>Feb 27th 2010 9:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/22/r4-card-provider-ordered-to-pay-nintendo-over-500-000-in-damage/Jul 28th 2010 4:47PM