If it was illegal I would be all for them dwelling on it, but it's not. As I explained multiple times. So unless somebody can come up with something better than Nintendos EULA, I would apreciate you guys not to further derail this topic.thesund0g said:Actually, the first reports on Hackmii of N declining to service a modded console were out of Germany:
Didn't you read the part of my post about how after half a year the customer has to prove that the modifications weren't what caused the defect? Nobody is going to do this because you are not going to pay an expert thousands of Euros to testify for a repair of a 190€ console. So yeah Nintendo is stonewalling customers who had their Wiis modified. Still doesn't make it illegal, just makes Nintendo douches who don't care for the law.
QUOTEPeople are dwelling on the legality issue because that's what supposedly makes your guide so special and wonderful. Rename it, and people will stop. This is no more legal than NUSD in most jurisdictions. NUSD works a lot better, too.I'm not going to comment on the legality of xzxero's guide because it actually works for most people. I believe most users care more about the outcome than the legality of the method used, provided no babies are sacrificed at the unholy altar, etc.
Granted the question about circumventing copy protection is a lot more in a gray area. Here in germany there are actually contradicting laws since the copy protection law was introduced a few years back. Because we also have a law that guarantees us the right to up to 9 security copys and even the right to give these copys to friends. Plus we still have to pay royalties to the GEMA for blank media, for exactly that reason.
The other thing is that a lot of laywers / judges argue that copy protection is circumvented when something is copied that wasn't supposed to. In this guide however I don't provide disc dumpers or NAND-filesystem dumpers.
So yeah there is kind of a gray area. I give you that. But most people who studied law will tell you that it's still on the legal side of things.
In the end it matters what the laws of the country here GBAtemp is hosted say. Could somebody check those so we can put an end to this discussion, please?
I can however tell you that it is illegal everywhere, apart from maybe china, to distribute copyrighted code unless you have premission from the owners. xzxero's guide uses a lot of Nintendos copyrighted code and I doubt he has the premission.
As far as I know I only redistribute code here where the license premits it. Yes I had a few hickups in the beginning but nobody is perfect.
Regarding this guide allegedly not working as good as NUSD. How can you even compare the two? With NUSD you have to download every IOS, Channel, System Menu, etc. seperately. A guide using NUSD would be 10 pages long.
If you mean NUSAD. How would that be possible? It uses the same command line version of NUSD as this guide!
And I always said that NUSAD is a damn good tool, for experienced users. But it's interface is way to complicated for Newbies. The automod.bat in this guide asks you 3 very easy to answer questions and then you are on your way.
Your last paragraph seems to imply that this guide doesn't work as opposed to xzxero's. May I ask where you got that from?
@yellowperil
Thanks for your support.
