Hacking iEvo legal?

[Thesolcity]

To sum up this whole thread and to prevent confusion...
A DSi flashcard IS legal under these conditions:

1). It CANNOT have firmware on it. Meaning that when you get it, you would have to flash it.

2). NO COMMERCIAL ROMS CAN BE LOADED ON IT WHEN IT IS SOLD.

3). YOU CANNOT ADVERTISE IT EXPLICITLY FOR PIRACY.

So...in short, if I have a "DSi Homebrew" flashcard that contains no commercial roms and no copy-protection circumventing firmware on it, it IS legal.

'Nuff said.

This is true for countries that have laws similar to the US. But in Germany, it is illegal to bypass copy protection; which flash carts are advertised to do. So in short, they are illegal in Germany

Using that logic, Action Replay DSi's should be banned in Germany. (Are they?)

 

[DeathStrudel]

To sum up this whole thread and to prevent confusion...
A DSi flashcard IS legal under these conditions:

1). It CANNOT have firmware on it. Meaning that when you get it, you would have to flash it.

2). NO COMMERCIAL ROMS CAN BE LOADED ON IT WHEN IT IS SOLD.

3). YOU CANNOT ADVERTISE IT EXPLICITLY FOR PIRACY.

So...in short, if I have a "DSi Homebrew" flashcard that contains no commercial roms and no copy-protection circumventing firmware on it, it IS legal.

'Nuff said.

This is true for countries that have laws similar to the US. But in Germany, it is illegal to bypass copy protection; which flash carts are advertised to do. So in short, they are illegal in Germany

Using that logic, Action Replay DSi's should be banned in Germany. (Are they?)

I don't know if they are, but Nintendo doesn't care as much about AR since you can't use them to play roms. The entire law about circumventing copy protection is just to close the "legal backup" loophole

 

[Thesolcity]

To sum up this whole thread and to prevent confusion...
A DSi flashcard IS legal under these conditions:

1). It CANNOT have firmware on it. Meaning that when you get it, you would have to flash it.

2). NO COMMERCIAL ROMS CAN BE LOADED ON IT WHEN IT IS SOLD.

3). YOU CANNOT ADVERTISE IT EXPLICITLY FOR PIRACY.

So...in short, if I have a "DSi Homebrew" flashcard that contains no commercial roms and no copy-protection circumventing firmware on it, it IS legal.

'Nuff said.

This is true for countries that have laws similar to the US. But in Germany, it is illegal to bypass copy protection; which flash carts are advertised to do. So in short, they are illegal in Germany

Using that logic, Action Replay DSi's should be banned in Germany. (Are they?)

I don't know if they are, but Nintendo doesn't care as much about AR since you can't use them to play roms. The entire law about circumventing copy protection is just to close the "legal backup" loophole

Still is copy-protection circumventing, which was the point you made.
So, if a notorious copy-protection circumventing device that is capable of cheating, running homebrew, and can be found in any local game store is legal, then why isn't a blank flashcard, or an iPlayer which is completely unable to load commercial ROMs besides GBA?

(Blank as in completely blank, no firmware, no anything. If you tried to pop it in a ds/dsi nothing would happen. Completely useless until flashed.)

 

[Deleted User]

In Germany they are not!
http://eng.supercard.sc/map/GERMANY.htm

you people are living in the US and Canada, but know european and even german laws? how stupid is this!
I bought 2 weeks ago in GERMANY, a Flashcard...
and 4 Weeks ago a Modded Xbox 360 here: http://www.gametop.de/

Modding and Flashcards is legal..gosh...next time I will take picture, so you belive me...germany is not the US.

It doesn't matter if you can buy flashcarts in some shady shops in Germany, they are illegal. Just refer to § 95a UrhG which clearly states that _any_ circumvention of a copy protection without the consent of the rights holder is illegal. However, § 108b UrhG says it's not illegal for private purposes, but you'd need a good lawyer I guess. § 108b subsection 2 says that you're not allowed to import any device that does this. § 95a subsection 3 also states that it's illegal to import any device that does circumvent the copy protection for commercial purposes. So, the shops you're buying from are liable to prosecution.

o/t: Also, you're not exactly allowed to make a digital copy of a copy protected CD either, even if it's just for private use (read this [German] if you're interested).

 

[DeathStrudel]

Still is copy-protection circumventing, which was the point you made.
So, if a notorious copy-protection circumventing device that is capable of cheating, running homebrew, and can be found in any local game store is legal, then why isn't a blank flashcard, or an iPlayer which is completely unable to load commercial ROMs besides GBA?

(Blank as in completely blank, no firmware, no anything. If you tried to pop it in a ds/dsi nothing would happen. Completely useless until flashed.)

Do you know that they sell AR in Germany?
And if flash carts are equally as legal as AR, then why aren't they sold in retail stores?
And about the iPlayer, GBA roms are still commercial roms, so it's still illegal

 

[WiiUBricker]

It seems that some people dont know their own laws and cannot differ between a copyright work in general and a copyright work regarding video games.