Lik Sang On Nintendo Piracy Judgment 16
Thanks to several readers for pointing to the official statement over at Lik-Sang.com's website, regarding Nintendo's $600,000 anti-piracy court case judgment against their GameBoy and GameBoy Advance 'backup' devices, which we covered a couple of days ago. The Lik-Sang.com statement claims that the current Lik Sang site is not involved in this court case, but goes on to reference the official statement of Lik Sang International, posted as a comment on the original Slashdot story. The statement says that LSI are appealing the decision, and further argues that "..the very same
hardware under attack is used by thousands of hobbyist users and even professional
developers for legitimate purpose. Very embarrassing for Nintendo: even the large
publisher[s].. bought
hundreds and hundreds of Flash Cartridges from my company for beta testing."
only because of Nintendo's monopoly... (Score:4, Insightful)
comment, just because you CAN use something to dump/pirate stuff doesnt mean you automaticly do.
I can break thousands of laws with many "legal" items such as cd-burners, scanners, computers(!!),
video recorders etc etc etc. However, only because Nintendo has a monpoly in making GBA
cartridges they seem to think these units can be banned.
But really Nintendo, wouldnt the fair thing be to cut the crap and let anyone and everyone make GBA
games and produce the carts at the gba cart manufacturer of their choice?
Nintendo, maybe if you made some kind of reasonable priced development setup for amateur
developers THEN you could claim that these units are basicly used only for piracy, but NOT before
then! It would still be a monpoly BUT at least you wouldnt go around claiming that these units
are only used for piracy. A very good example of this would be www.gbadev.org [gbadev.org]!
They use these units and still you go around calling them pirates!?! Some of them make better
games at home then official games available in the stores.