@leseratte and friends, all very valid reasonings (and great reminder of consumer rights) but they miss the basic point that the license on any Nintendo console from Wii to WiiU applies to the optional online services, not the system itself
but what if the manufactuor puts a small explosive inside to trip wen code is modified? is it the hackers fault then?imagine that you modify an electronic and then it exploded and if it was proven that it was modified you would be the one responsible for all the damage and have to take responsibility for it since insurances would not pay for anything, since you modified it, therefore you lost all safety measures it had.
there is alot of tricky stuff that can happen, also i doubt any hacking team pays any taxes, that is all probably under the radar imo.
Love your avatar..... Did you ever get that pigeon out of that guys bank account?
but what if the manufactuor puts a small explosive inside to trip wen code is modified? is it the hackers fault then?
LOL that sounded so far fetched but hasn't something like that already happened? If I'm not mistaken, the Xbox 360 had the security measure of bricking the console by burning a fuse or something like that if the installation of an older firmware version was detected.
WOOOOOO SWITCH SOFTMODS ARE COMING BOIS!
Why do you think a piece of paper with "terms and conditions", that you see after buying an object, has any legal value?
If I sell a book and put into that book a note that says "Terms and conditions: Anyone who reads this book must send me $100." can I then sue anyone who buys and reads the book without giving me another 100 dollars?
No, I can't. Nintendo shouldn't be able to do that either. If I buy that book, I can open it, take it apart, tinker with it, remove some pages or add my own pages or text or whatever to the book. Why should it be different with a 3DS? I buy a 3DS, I do with it what I want, and I take a look at how it works, and add my own code to it. Simple.
It's hard to believe the Nintendo Ninjas have been real all along..
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Company ToS aren't actual laws you know.
After this, taking down all those rom sites, legal actions against Team Xecuter etc etc (the list goes on) Nintendo has lost me as a customer. Stalking somebody for making free exploits is crossing the line. Especially when said exploits dont even directly enable piracy in anyway shape or form.
damn I always knew my lampshade didn't have eyes when I bought it, screw you Nintendo
but on a more serious note I do remember at one point someone really really trying to push me to install a game for them on their 3DS, it came off as kinda weird as I had basically said " sorry I don't install or offer any games when I hardmod consoles" but they just kept pushing saying "maybe you can just install 1 game to get me started, Pokemon or Mario or something" I remember at the time thinking it was weird, I wonder if it was a Nintendo ninja.
They can do whatever they wants because they have the rights but they aren't going to stop the piracy, unfortunately. Never was and never will, no matter what. As long as technology exist so are hacker team! That's simple!
yeah Microsoft seem to have found the answer, just let people make home-brew for their own consoles, once you have a viable sandbox mode for people to play in and run emulators and stuff the inevitable piracy that usually comes with un-authorised homebrew efforts is much less likely to appear as most of the super talented devs are content playing in the development mode sandboxSounds like the secret shoppers we get at Jack In The Box, they deliberately ask for something we aren't supposed to do to see if we do it anyway just to make the sale.
Anyway, nintendo's way of dealing with with hackers/the homebrew scene in general is MEGA draconian, if they don't want people to homebrew systems, then they need to find a way to incentivize the community into not doing it, OR just allow people to do it anyway as long as what said homebrewer is doing is considered legal. Like turning the switch into a Windows/Linux Ultratablet.