who cares about piracy, really?people are so stupid with this drivel "oh noes 3ds is going to die because or piracy,if its hacked" the fact is that every game console ever made, or at least the popular ones,the ones that matter ,have been hacked and allow piracy,it does not affect the life of the console or the games, it does not kill the console, it has absolutely no effect on the industry, because despite piracy being ever more popular the game industry has only grown exponentially in profitability it is now even more profitable than the movie industry,and what people dont realize,although im not sure it affects the ds or cart based system(although it is a possibility)is that there are factories ,in china, that have thousands of or commercial,professional ,pressing machines,they can stamp out perfect 1:1 copies of anything on an optical disc,be it dvd or dl-dvd or blu-ray,anything,pc games ,console games,blu-ray movies,whatever, and they "pirate" or to be more accurate counterfeit these games by the boatload,
and they dont need to wait until a console is hacked or for an encryption key ,like decss key to do it either, they have been counterfeiting ps2,pc, ps3 and 360 games and wii games from the day the consoles were released,perfect copies that can not be differentiated from the real thing,you could have one right now and not know it,and its far more detrimental than people who "pirate"(which is not real piracy ,but in fact,fair use)
(you have just been brainwashed by corporations to believe its "piracy"and bad and "morally wrong",and to believe it affects the ability for entertainment companies to stay a profitable and viable business,which is all BS)
games by modifying their console,because even the wii,(which has the most users of modified consoles ever),only has a modified user base of slightly under 1% of all consoles,its trivial,and its especially trivial when compared to the # of counterfeits being produced in other countries,like china,even though there are no numbers for that sort of thing ,im sure it far exceeds any loss or potential loss from hacked consoles,and yet still the video game industry has not only remained a profitable business model,but has grown to be larger than the the movie business,and is more profitable than ever
i guess it was ok for sony to scream "fair use" in court when they wanted to market betamax all those years ago ,when the movie studios were concerned over people sharing content,(oh how times have changed)but now they sue people for even thinking about thinking about thinking about sharing anything, even with their other devices, they are total Hippocrates
the fact is that backups and managers have legitimate uses,and even sharing games by downloading them should fall under fair use,its the same as sony making a high speed dubbing dual tape deck in the 80's or a high speed dubbing vcr,when content was only sold on tape media, and someone would borrow a music cassette or vhs movie from a friend and copy it,so it was ok for sony to sell devices that allowed you to do that,like they sell blu-ray burners and dvd burners now, but if you so much you as release information or a code or a method to get a code that allows someone else to develop something else that allows someone else to develop something else that allows someone else to develop something that allows you to backup a ps3 game ,they sue you.
when you do that and give it away for free they call it "a circumvention device" and sue,but when they did it with betamax,or do it with disc burners,sell them, and make $ from it, its ok
piracy has been around since the beginning and it hasn't hurt the music industry,the movie industry ,or the video game industry
people dont get what it mean when a company goes public and has an IPO(initial public offering),it is no longer about being profitable ,it is about beating an imaginary expectation set by wall st.
they expect public companies to increase their profits more and more each quarter, indefinitely into infinity,its not even sustainable, and its not based on any reality or what the company needs to earn to be a profitable company,its based on if it will make people who like to speculate on things, more money