A UK based student, Yuncan Meng, has been sentenced to one year in prison after importing a large number of R4 homebrew DS cartridges. Mr Meng, 30, set up a business called "Market Express UK Ltd" from his home in Cotswold Grove Hull, after completing a Phd in business at the local University. Meng, who is of Chinese origin, imported 26,500 R4 units and made £700,000 in the space of nine months selling the device on Amazon UK.  Despite warning letters from Nintendo last January and February, he continued the business.  
 
Hull trading standards raided his property last April. When they seized his computer, they also found more than 800 indecent images of boys as young as five being abused and tortured in horrific ways. He was sentence to two years altogether, after pleading guilty to selling and possessing the fraudulent devices, and the possession of indecent images of young children. He's been ordered to sign the sex offenders register for 10 years and recommended for deportation to China after his sentence.

  
His barrister Ian Phillip said:  
 

"Clearly he benefited from that profit but he provided for his brother to attend Bath University. His tuition fees and living expenses were in excess of £18,500 a year."

"He is extremely intelligent, studied for a Phd in business and put it to extremely good use. These are devices which enable people to steal other people's intellectual property at will."

You would think he would be under investigation for the child porn.
 
lulz UK Police.

The child porn is bad enough, but fucking with Nintendo? Jesus Christ the man's a monster!

I was not aware the devices were illegal in the UK.  As far as I know, they are not illegal in Australia, only what you do with it is illegal as it can be used for legal purposes.