Nintendo wins another case concerning flashcards

[scrtmstr]

AMSTERDAM - The court in The Hague has found eleven webshops guilty of stimulating illegal downloading of games from nintendo.


Nintendo sued the webshops because they were selling flashcards for the ds and modchips for the wii, which can be used to mod the console. The case has finally reached it's conclusion after 2 years.

Copies
With the flashcards and modchips, it was possible to copy unautorised copies of nintendo games and play them. The shops also sold moddedversions of the WII console, which can also be used for illegal game playing.

The court judged that: "the traded goods were exclusively used to circumvent the provisions that Nintendo had taken for her copyright combat."

The trade in flashcards and modchips is, according to the judge, illegal with law article 29a, because a number of security measures are bypassed. With that included, the judge has forbidden the trade of flashcards and modchips. He has also forbidden the trade of modded consoles and providing the service of modding a console.

Compensation
The webshops are ordered to destroy all their supplys within 14 days, and they are ordered to pay nintendo compensation for "all the financial damage that has been caused by selling the flashcards and modchips." The amount of compensation is still to be decided.

The defense of the webshops, that Nintendo is guilty of unfair competition, was rejected by the court. According to the judge, nintendo has proven that she allows third partys enough chances to develop applications and games for her consoles.

Source (Dutch)

Sorry if the translation is bad, i've done parts with google translate 'cause i've got a bit of a headache right now.

 

[Scott-105]

What sites were shut down?

 

[Santee]

Its to late for them anyway the 3ds is almost out.

 

[scrtmstr]

What sites were shut down?

Dutch sites as far as i'm aware, but they've still got some internationnal cases running apparently.

 

[Satangel]

Its to late for them anyway the 3ds is almost out.

It's never too late to combat piracy, there still going to be a lot of DS games and Wii games (since modchips are forbidden now too) sold and released.
Good win for Nintendo, luckily I already have all the equipment I need

 

[KingVamp]

It never to early either , they probably trying to shut most of them down before they release that thing (3DS)

 

[nico445]

ah whatever those dutch sites just screwed you off with their prices. i don't think they can stop shoptemp or some other cheap chinese dealer

 

[megawalk]

behold nintendo! it is to late now...

 

[Langin]

http://sniptech.eu

No flashcards anymore!

lucky me, cos I did stop with pirating and I am only going to buy real games!

 

[Ritsuki]

Like I always say, it's funny to see that you can still buy a knife or a gun, even if you can kill people with it. But since it doesn't involve money, nobody cares...

 

[Maikel Steneker]

What sites were shut down?

Just some Dutch webshops. This is really nothing to worry about for people outside of the Netherlands. For people in the Netherlands, this can be difficult. I can imagine that even imported flashcarts will be destroyed now.

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

Like I always say, it's funny to see that you can still buy a knife or a gun, even if you can kill people with it. But since it doesn't involve money, nobody cares...

Exactly, damn capitalism.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Like I always say, it's funny to see that you can still buy a knife or a gun, even if you can kill people with it. But since it doesn't involve money, nobody cares...

I was going to make the same point.

I say we ban blank DVDs.

 

[gameguy95]

AMSTERDAM - The court in The Hague has found eleven webshops guilty of stimulating illegal downloading of games from nintendo.

The defense of the webshops, that Nintendo is guilty of unfair competition, was rejected by the court. According to the judge, nintendo has proven that she allows third partys enough chances to develop applications and games for her consoles.

Source (Dutch)

Sorry if the translation is bad, i've done parts with google translate 'cause i've got a bit of a headache right now.

Nintendo is a girl!?!

 

[nico445]

What sites were shut down?

Just some Dutch webshops. This is really nothing to worry about for people outside of the Netherlands. For people in the Netherlands, this can be difficult. I can imagine that even imported flashcarts will be destroyed now.

small chance. illegal lasers and such still get safe in holland (from dx and such) sometimes they get caught but that's just taking the risk
the first time you won't get any fine or something since everbody could have send it to your home so i guess it's still safe to order from china

 

[Potticus]

AMSTERDAM - The court in The Hague has found eleven webshops guilty of stimulating illegal downloading of games from nintendo.

The defense of the webshops, that Nintendo is guilty of unfair competition, was rejected by the court. According to the judge, nintendo has proven that she allows third partys enough chances to develop applications and games for her consoles.

Source (Dutch)

Sorry if the translation is bad, i've done parts with google translate 'cause i've got a bit of a headache right now.

Nintendo is a girl!?!

I like to imagine my Nintendo in tight leather pants, with a great ass, and a low-cut shirt singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd.
And I'm in the front row and I'm hammered drunk.

Nintendo is trying to stop illegal downloads of their software. Shouldn't they go for a bigger country?

 

[Maz7006]

shit they're kind of serious this time round .

i can just imagine if the same applied to china ... lol the whole country will be burned down

 

[spinal_cord]

Like I always say, it's funny to see that you can still buy a knife or a gun, even if you can kill people with it. But since it doesn't involve money, nobody cares...

I was going to make the same point.

I say we ban blank DVDs.

Also the following should be banned under those rules -

VCR's
Combined VCR + DVD players
DVD recorders
ViVo
Sky+
All commercial PVR systems
DVD players which support DVDR's
CD recorders
CD players which support CDR's
DVDR drives
CDR drives
Tv Tuner cards (for PC's)
HiFi systems which allow recording CD/Radio/Vinal/Tape to Tape

As they all either break copy protection or bypass copy protection on order to work.

 

[SamAsh07]

Hmm, a win for Nintendo eh? That's nice I guess....but hackers/dealers never give up so Nintendo, I have 3 words for you:-
Best Of Luck
Lol, combating Piracy ain't easy but it ain't impossible either.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

Nintendo is a girl!?!
Blame the translation. In Dutch, you would actually refer to Nintendo as a "she".

QUOTE(Scott-105 @ Jul 21 2010, 07:15 PM) What sites were shut down?

Just some Dutch webshops. This is really nothing to worry about for people outside of the Netherlands. For people in the Netherlands, this can be difficult. I can imagine that even imported flashcarts will be destroyed now.

small chance. illegal lasers and such still get safe in holland (from dx and such) sometimes they get caught but that's just taking the risk
the first time you won't get any fine or something since everbody could have send it to your home so i guess it's still safe to order from china

Yeah, that's what I meant.

Before this, if they caught you importing a flashcart you could always get it back. Sometimes they would make you write a letter etc. but they'd never just destroy it. This could say if we all agree in the Netherlands that flashcarts are illegal.