Hacking Nintendo made acekard2i illegal?

[pmk010]

I ordered an Acekard 2i from NDS-Gear.com last Wednesday, and received Thursday (using Royal Mail special delivery). Now the site are moving from the UK to the US due to this new UK law.

Their blog states this:

As most of you know, on the 28th of July a High Court ruling in London stated that the import of R4 cards into the U.K. was now deemed illegal because they circumvent Nintendo’s copyright protection measure.

In our view, this was uncalled for and unfair as it was targetting a small proportion of people that use the Nintendo DS to pirate games, and completely shunning the homebrew community and developers. As a direct result of this ruling (and the newest 1.4.1/1.4.2 firmware update) many homebrew developers have become fed-up with Nintendo and may well choose to create new applications on other platforms instead – which will harm Nintendo in the long run.

Unfortunately, despite the ridiculousness of the ruling, NDS-Gear have been watching carefully for an appeal and also the legal documentation regarding DS cards as no longer kosher – and for this reason, even though we highly disagree, and even though we have received no request to close, we will be moving the site to become compliant with the U.K. ruling as of the 16th of September (tomorrow / Thursday).

The reason for this timing is because we intend on re-opening in less than a day from the U.S. – on Friday – so the site will not be permanently shut. However, any U.K. customers wishing to get a card before the site relocates should do so today or tomorrow to avoid having to purchase from abroad and pay larger shipping fees.

So you either have to purchase one from the US, or risk using a UK Seller, that has not shut down/moved yet!

That is really annoying. I hate Nintendo!

 

[Rydian]

And if you use it on a DS/Lite, it won't need to bypass anything.

You don't have to bypass anything... except for the DS' copy protection, which prevents the launching of unsigned code, by using info from a commercial ROM.

So except for the fact that you're wrong, you're totally right.

The fuck?

1 - DS/Lite didn't have that protection.

2 - DSi 1.3 and lower didn't either.