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Nintendo wins another lawsuit, awarded $2 million in damages against SXOS reseller

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Another day means another lawsuit, when it comes to Nintendo. A court dispute, originally filed in May, saw the company go after Uberchips, a reseller of Team Xecuter's, as Nintendo puts it, "piracy tools". Nintendo filed seeking damages against Uberchip's owner, Tom Dilts Jr., who proceeded to take his website down following the initial court dispute, though he maintained his own innocence. Prior to May, Dilts had been selling the SX OS dongle through Uberchips.com, which Nintendo states facilitated piracy, and now, both he and Nintendo have come to a conclusion in a new joint filing. A permanent injunction has been ruled, and a settlement of $2 million in damages must be paid to Nintendo. A stipulation of the ruling also permanently bans Dilts from ever reselling any Team Xecuter products, and if any leftover chips remained, they must be seized and destroyed.

This matter came before the Court on the parties’ Consent to Entry of Judgment and Permanent Injunction, Dkt. No. 14, and Joint Motion for Entry of Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction, Dkt. No. 15. The Court enters judgment as follows: 1. Plaintiff is hereby awarded judgment against all Defendants, jointly and severally, in the amount of US$2,000,000.00. 2. Each party shall bear its own costs and attorneys’ fees.
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:arrow: Source: court documents, courtesy of Torrent Freak
 
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enabeling piracy when the console isn't even dead like the 3ds hackers are too impatiant the 3ds i can understand and aswell as the wii u but doing something like this on a console that is stll going to get revisions up the ass and the games are not that expensive so instead of paying to enable piracy using their code with a third party accessory maybe buy the games to support the developers and not be cheap?
 
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Legendaykai said:
enabeling piracy when the console isn't even dead like the 3ds hackers are too impatiant the 3ds i can understand and aswell as the wii u but doing something like this on a console that is stll going to get revisions up the ass and the games are not that expensive so instead of paying to enable piracy using their code with a third party accessory maybe buy the games to support the developers and not be cheap?
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sells more units for nintendo if it can be hacked, dark alex didnt kill the psp, 360 dvd drive firmware hacked early in its lifetime didnt kill that either. plus % of hacked units compared to unhacked is miniscule, alot of people have two switches, one for online another for CFW so they still support the devs. maybe if there were more decent titles and not so much shovelware / phone games it might be different.
 
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Legendaykai said:
enabeling piracy when the console isn't even dead like the 3ds hackers are too impatiant the 3ds i can understand and aswell as the wii u but doing something like this on a console that is stll going to get revisions up the ass and the games are not that expensive so instead of paying to enable piracy using their code with a third party accessory maybe buy the games to support the developers and not be cheap?
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It's not illegal eveywhere, china has no ip laws. so copyright means nothing over there, piracy will always be a thing.
 
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Legendaykai said:
enabeling piracy when the console isn't even dead like the 3ds hackers are too impatiant the 3ds i can understand and aswell as the wii u but doing something like this on a console that is stll going to get revisions up the ass and the games are not that expensive so instead of paying to enable piracy using their code with a third party accessory maybe buy the games to support the developers and not be cheap?
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Atmosphere also enables piracy.
 
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Homlet said:
Nintendo has a page on its own website stating that downloading roms, even if you own them, even you just only keep them for 24hours, is infringing their copyright.
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Yes. That is entirely true. Many countries don't allow backups, America's fair use exemption doesn't allow you to download someone elses backup you have to make your own.

Meatloaf916 said:
It's not illegal eveywhere, china has no ip laws. so copyright means nothing over there, piracy will always be a thing.
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China does have IP laws, how effectively they enforce them is a different matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_in_China#Copyright_law

MaxToTheMax said:
Don't you love Newbies who don't read the Wiki? lol
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Well it was a long time ago and the only thing that remains from those days is the name

https://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp.net#Early_years

But there is a lingering smell in the air that has never gone away.
 
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I like how they pretend a mod chip company is "a criminal enterprise". How many mod chip companies have already existed in the past that nobody gave a damn about? Dozens? What the hell law is even being broken by creating a daughterboard add-on? It would only be a problem if TX was actually advertising the product for piracy when it can be used for many things in practice.
 
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linuxares said:
Dude... it takes no one with out a brain to just check the DNS records x3
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I just did a lookup of team-xecutor.com and didn't spot anything, am I looking at the wrong url? Or has it updated?

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It is not if the licenses have expired. Please read copyright law for all countries affiliated with the proprietary devices and software. Thank you!
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What copyright do you think has expired?
 
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