Nintendo found their first loss in court against piracy.
In spanish courts the company tried to stop the marketing of homebrew products in a website called Movilquick, and the jury found them with lack of evidence to ban the product, emitting this statement:
"[The device] may be used by acquirers for both pirating games and for adding legitimate functions, including use of legitimate games from other countries, backing up original games, or various other functions such as managing photos, music or operation of free software.
Ultimately what occurs is the manipulation of hardware to extend its functionality, allowing use for both legitimate and illegitimate ends, but not only illegitimate ones."
SourceWhat do you think of the way Nintendo is trying to end piracy and the courts rulling against it?
Do you agree with any of it?
For me i think that it's good that this happened, because there is more to piracy than banning the said products. There has to be action upon the desires of the consumers.
Removing of region locks and the capacity for creating homebrew software with the Nintendo's software, for instance.
Or they can be arrogant about it, and make their new console software download only.
Let's see where this takes us...
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