Judge rules Nintendo illegally protects consoles

[Kanye Omari West]

We have just heard that Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to.

The ramifications of this are huge, as it indicates that flash carts are actually legal. Moroever, it could have bigger implications for developers and the like because Nintendo is deemed to be 'illegally' protecting their system by locking users out. Therefore, developers should not actually require separate development kits and should just be able to develop applications as they wish on retail versions of Nintendo's consoles.

And on a final note, this truly was a HUGE court case, up in the main court of Paris France and seems likely to be relevant to the whole of Europe.

Essentially, if people have to 'hack' the system and use Flash Carts to do develop, then it's all fine because Nintendo has left them with little other choice and the system should not be protected in such a restrictive way.

Full court documents will be available soon

 

[«Jack»]

I'm not sure if this is real or not, but I'm pretty damn gullible.

 

[Kanye Omari West]

I'm not sure if this is real or not, but I'm pretty damn gullible.

I put money that it is real.

 

[Magibelly]

Nooo not my Ninty.. D':

 

[Kanye Omari West]

Nooo not my Ninty.. D':

Did you even bother to read this?

They're not ending or anything, it's just that flash cards and homebrew are legit.

 

[Magibelly]

Nooo not my Ninty.. D':

Did you even bother to read this?

They're not ending or anything, it's just that flash cards and homebrew are legit.

Oh, I just thought something bad happened to them o:
/toolazytoread

 

[gerardo781]

Wow.

 

[Kanye Omari West]

Nooo not my Ninty.. D':

Did you even bother to read this?

They're not ending or anything, it's just that flash cards and homebrew are legit.

Oh, I just thought something bad happened to them o:
/toolazytoread

Bad for them, fantastic for me =D

 

[Palad][n]

WHats the big deal about this? Everyone uses homebrew/flashcards, and nobody cares

 

[Kanye Omari West]

[n,Dec 5 2009, 07:50:59 PM]WHats the big deal about this? Everyone uses homebrew/flashcards, and nobody cares

Now you won't have to think of consequences.

And maybe this will remove that friend code = no for hackers.

 

[«Jack»]

[n,Dec 5 2009, 07:50:59 PM]WHats the big deal about this? Everyone uses homebrew/flashcards, and nobody cares

Except for the fact that they could get sued for everything they'll ever make.

 

[bcb]

Hahahahaa... I'm... kinda happy.

 

[-Aaron]

http://kotaku.com/5422984/its-nintendo-vs-france-in-flash-card-showdown

It's completely legitimate.

 

[easpa]

Wow...

 

[muffun]

It may be legitimate, but it doesn't make hacking morally correct.

 

[Pear]

It's a French court, so does it make a difference for us that are stateside?

 

[muffun]

It's a French court, so does it make a difference for us that are stateside?

I think so.

 

[Doctor]

Cool stuff, although I'll have to install Homebrew again since that update the Wii had wiped it.

 

[Sky master]

nintendos on the block?
uh ho!

 

[Prof Gallows]

It may be legitimate, but it doesn't make hacking morally correct.

Hacking brings new ideas, which form new games.
But since Nintendo is stuck up, any games developed will just be thrown in the trash.

Looks like I'll be re-installing homebrew. The french actually did something good for once by deeming Nintendo's blockings illegal.