UK Courts Rule Nintendo DS R4 Cards Illegal 254
CheShACat writes "A UK high court ruled today that R4 cards for the Nintendo DS are illegal, finding two vendors guilty of selling 'game copiers.' The ruling by Justice Floyd is quoted as saying, 'The economic effect on Nintendo of the trade in these devices is substantial as each accused device can store and play copies of many Nintendo DS games [...] The mere fact that the device can be used for a non-infringing purpose is not a defence.' No word in the article as to what law in particular they were found to have broken, nor of the penalty the vendors are facing, but this looks like bad news for all kinds of hardware mod, on any platform, that would enable homebrew users to bypass vendor locks."
Nintendo won a related lawsuit in the Netherlands recently, in addition to the one in Australia earlier this year.
Re:Apply logic to other things... (Score:5, Funny)
Just because my Logitech 5-button optical mouse (black) can be used as a controller for the cursor on my personal computer does not mean it cannot also be used to crush the ants that have invaded my bedroom because of all the Cheetos crumbs I dropped during last night's marathon session of Starcraft 2: Liberty (the RELOADED release*).
Thus, it must be regulated as an insecticide.
[*please note this post is for entertainment purposes only and should not be misconstrued as a description of reality, since I'd never play a pirated game since that would be wrong (SEED, YOU BASTARDS!)
Re:Apply logic to other things... (Score:3, Funny)
Logic? That's only a device to circumvent a judge's arbitrary ruling, and thus prohibited by law.
Re:Apply logic to other things... (Score:5, Funny)
meat is murder!
fish is rape!
bread is assault!
veggies are petty theft!
Re:Apply logic to other things... (Score:4, Funny)
Leave their sex life out of this...