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Nintendo wins R4 case in Australia |
Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: Australia, lawsuit, Nintendo, piracy
Chalk up another legal victory for Nintendo in Australia. After successfully tracking down a pirate by using "sophisticated technological forensics", the company has now been awarded more than half a million dollars in damages by an Australian court who declared the R4 chip as illegal.
The majority of the money is going to come out of the pockets of R4 retailer RSJ IT Solutions, who was ordered by the Federal Court to pay Nintendo which comes to AU$ 520,000 (about US$ 467,000) in damages. Furthermore, RSJ has been ordered to stop selling the mod chip through its gadgetgear.com.au site and any other sites it controls.
Two affiliated respondents also named in Nintendo's lawsuit -- Patrick Li and James Li -- were also ordered by the Federal Court to stop selling their R4 chips anywhere in Australia. They must also pay Nintendo an additional AU$ 100,000 (about US$ 90,000) and file an affidavit by the end of this week identifying all suppliers from whom they purchased their R4 chips.
Via [ITNews]
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Nintendo must need every penny of all the billions they're making this gen.
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I'd love to know where these potential sales numbers come from. As if they can decide if someone wants to purchase a game or not, or that if they didn't own an r4 card they would have bought it eh? What about people like me that use a cyclods to carry all my legitimately bought games with me and add cheat support without having to use an obtrusive add on like action replay that juts out of my DS, in addition to being able run homebrew apps and games too.
Anyone who has ever walked in a game store, looked around and changed their mind 6 times can tell you no one but themselves knows what they are going to buy, and all the business analysts in the world that want to say otherwise are as full of shit as their fake sales numbers that never happened.
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As for the flash cart/mod suppliers in oz, I feel sorry for them as they all will find they can't sell the things, yet as most of us Aussies probably do, we'll just get them imported from China/HK anyway.
So what next, they'll sue Australia Post for importation of a R4 card from a country that has no copyright laws?
It's a good thing I still have my acekard2, it's not illegal here, yet. Lol.
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Get you facts right, Australia is NOT a corrupted country, it a democratic country.
The reason why we don't have a R18 for video games, is due to the South Australia's Governor General Michael Atkinson, but a petition is in progress and it will change soon..
As for piracy back when PSX was around the modchip was legal in Australia...
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WTF Nintendo? WTF
You're giving me evil corporation vibes, here
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You do realize the lawsuits were in different countries that each have their own laws and punishments?
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