Hardcore Gamer said:
No, I'm talking about Nintendo dealing with pirates. If this VC hack was for people with modded wii's only and a few pirates were installing some VC titles to their menu then Ninty probably wouldn't give a toss. But now that anyone can install a hack on an unmodded wii that enables them to download games for free from their shop then that's different.
Just how many people do you think are pirating the VC games? Considering the Wii has sold in excess of 20,000,000 units worldwide, I'd guess 1,000 people have installed a pirated VC game, times that by 10 for arguments sake. If 10,000 individual people install a pirated game. That's only 0.05% of all Wiis sold being used to pirated VC games. Hardly epidemic.
You also have to consider potential monetary loss for Nintendo. You could employ the RIAA's "every download is a sale lost argument" but that's bullshit. For me, a person with the inclination to download, execute and install a VC game, is the kind of person likely and able to just use an emulator and would never have bought from Nintendo in the first place, so no monetary loss there.
If you're going to chastise people for installing pirated VC games you should also do it for those creating, running and supplying emulators. After all, all Nintendo care about is it business interests, i.e profit.