QUOTE said:In addition to the counterfeit Nintendo products, police also seized a working Bazooka gun from the criminals.
baffle-boy said:i sent them a report of piracy and said this in every comment box:
stopping sales of a product that can be used to pirate, even when the website said not to do that is disgusting. im going to buy a psp and tell everyone i know to pirate games from nintendo.
i hope they like it (no way am i buying a psp im just going to start pirateing (more))
Hop2089 said:What a poor attempt in combating piracy, if they really want to do something can't they just work with the US and Japanese governments.
QUOTE said:Unfortunately, Nintendo and its over 100 independent publishers and developers lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year to international pirates and counterfeiters.
Giga_Gaia said:QUOTE said:Unfortunately, Nintendo and its over 100 independent publishers and developers lose hundreds of millions of dollars per year to international pirates and counterfeiters.
Hahaha, hundreds of millions of dollars my ass. Even if there is a slight possibility they would lose that much (which isn't), it makes me want to pirate more.
What a bunch of idiots, they should just give up, no matter what they do, it's a war they can't win, ever. Pirates will always exist. Beside, I am not ever gonna pay for any nintendo stuff ever again, it's expensive as hell and I don't want to pay if I can get it for free. I'D rather keep my money for food and important stuff and get free entertainment while those morons try to stop piracy.
This goes for DS, DSi, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360. I would pirate the PS3 if it was possible, but it's not.
Overlord Zetta said:Hop2089 said:What a poor attempt in combating piracy, if they really want to do something can't they just work with the US and Japanese governments.
Indeed Hop2089, it is rather pathetic isn't it. Shutting down Flashcart dealers doesn't solve anything in the long run, the roms are still out there on the internet. The fact that they haven't updated their little AP propaganda manual is even more pathetic.
Sigh, and this was a company I once admired and loved. Now I almost feel completely the opposite. Nintendo seems to have become a dictatorship of sorts...
Giga_Gaia said:They can't shut anyone down, it's impossible. There is more pirates then multi-billions dollars corporations who fights piracy.
If you shut something down, 10 more places show up.
If you take the exem-0ple of Nappster back in the days, who got shut down, well, it didn't last long, more file sharing service came up, like Kazaa, limewire and other stuff people use.
A war against piracy is a war that no one can win. Pirates will always be there, this alone make them the winner.
I liked Nintendo too back in the days. Now, I pirate DSi, Wii, 360 games because they are damn too expensive and I pirate PSP stuffs because lets face it, what Sony offer with the PSP is crap (also expensive).
When they do stuff like that, it makes me want to pirate more (and I will)
\jakob95 said:Nintendo is starting to close down websites that sell Flashcarts as off now. First website they seemed to close is thedsdeals.com
They even make a new site for the Anti-Piracy campaign.
http://ap.nintendo.com/
kwartel said:Some research told that almost everyone in the USA with a DS have a Flashcard, so it isn't that weird they want to ban that!
indeed, the site is actually rather well-researched in a lot of places. while they don't actually mention homebrew it's still pretty informative.IBNobody said:\jakob95 said:Nintendo is starting to close down websites that sell Flashcarts as off now. First website they seemed to close is thedsdeals.com
They even make a new site for the Anti-Piracy campaign.
http://ap.nintendo.com/
That's actually a pretty neat site.
They have pics of counterfit handheld carts.
http://ap.nintendo.com/detect/photos/
It was in a Dutch newspaperbenjaminlibl said:This is stupid. Flashcarts aren't always used for piracy. Damn you Nintendo.
kwartel said:Some research told that almost everyone in the USA with a DS have a Flashcard, so it isn't that weird they want to ban that!
Where are you getting that wack info? Even if it was true at least back it up with a source.
That's why Nintendo is now hosting the anti-piracy campaign to increase and save the economy for their business!benjaminlibl said:This is stupid. Flashcarts aren't always used for piracy. Damn you Nintendo.