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Aren't flashcarts legal in the U.S.?
The elephant in the room (or Panda as it may be) is the fact that, while developed nations like the US and Japan have economies that are reliant on developing and protecting intellectual property and natural resources, China's economy is based on stealing intellectual property and destroying natural resources.
The US government has an interest in protecting Nintendo's intellectual property. Unfortunately, these cards are not coming from the US. They are coming from a place with a totalitarian government that has shown zero interest in protecting the intellectual property of other nations, because they have so little of their own and because their economy has been built around stealing ideas, software, and even entire factories from developed nations and Western companies.
It's a case of putting the horse before the cart. The suppliers are not US-based.
this is just a huge waste of money for them, something being illegal isn't going to stop it from happening millions of small packages come into america every single day almost none of them are checked, unless it smells like drugs or is huge and easily detectible it wont stop them from being used. the only thing this might stop is sellers from inside USA already and i thought that was already illegal.
they'd probably have better luck stopping them just buying the factory where they are produced and shutting down.
Under the DMCA, yes they are. Even circumventing the security (think DS profile exploit + Launcher.dat) to run homebrew is technically illegal. This is an exercise in redundancy. Honestly, I find it hard to believe that some state-side shops are still operating.
In reference to packages being seized: It seems memory card is the go-to description on imported products.
The elephant in the room (or Panda as it may be) is the fact that, while developed nations like the US and Japan have economies that are reliant on developing and protecting intellectual property and natural resources, China's economy is based on stealing intellectual property and destroying natural resources.
The US government has an interest in protecting Nintendo's intellectual property. Unfortunately, these cards are not coming from the US. They are coming from a place with a totalitarian government that has shown zero interest in protecting the intellectual property of other nations, because they have so little of their own and because their economy has been built around stealing ideas, software, and even entire factories from developed nations and Western companies.
It's a case of putting the horse before the cart. The suppliers are not US-based.
it always was with the dmcaSo, is owning a Gateway illegal now?
Yeah, US laws don't affect them.What about people who already have one? Is the Gateway site still going to push out updates?
LOL.
What is the USA going to do?
Threat flashcards like if they were drugs?
There is no way they can stop the import of flashcards (or any other kind of hardware) into the country.
That is just nonsensical BS. Worst case scenario might be just that some local stores or second sellers of additional hardware for consoles and handhelds stop selling this kind of product... If they ever did.
Don't even try, Nintendo.
It is not a product that is solely created for piracy, it is up to the user to do so.
Don't even worry guys, this won't carry over at all.
LOL.
What is the USA going to do?
Threat flashcards like if they were drugs?
There is no way they can stop the import of flashcards (or any other kind of hardware) into the country.
That is just nonsensical BS. Worst case scenario might be just that some local stores or second sellers of additional hardware for consoles and handhelds stop selling this kind of product... If they ever did.
Don't even try, Nintendo.
It is not a product that is solely created for piracy, it is up to the user to do so.
Don't even worry guys, this won't carry over at all.
Succeeding?They shut down realhotstuff...one of the biggest flashcart sellers for US folk...With USA bribe money, I do believe they are "Trying" and succeeding.
Succeeding?
I would call it "With short success"
Sure, they can STOP THE SELLS of the card in the USA, but simply stopping resellers for the card won't stop the TRAFFIC of it.
The only thing that they can do is tell official USA resellers to stop selling the card.
All other non-USA resellers will still be there, and customs office can't stop a package just because it is a flashcard.
My point being that traffic for flashcards in USA will still be there, through other resellers.
It won't stop because of whatever intends and purposes Nintendo has.
Hurry up realhotstuff give me my refund so I can order a gateway on wcrepairssssssss