Urza said:
That is incorrect.
Every slot-1 flashcart utilizes a built-in NoPass chip, which contains the encryption scheme reverse-engineered from a commercial cart.
Under the DMCA this is blatantly illegal.1 - You don't need to have the encryption scheme, you only need to give the DS the info it's looking for. As
this article shows, even in the updated case of the DSi you still only need to respond with a few
static (not copywritten-program-derived) commands it's looking for. As we learned from the HD-DVD encryption key scheme (and as Intel learned when trying to sue an 80386 clone maker) you can't copyright a number.
2 - The DMCA does not make bypassing DRM inherently illegal like it was previously thought.
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librari...-Statement.html
QUOTE said:
The DMCA does not forbid the act of circumventing copy controls
That ruling doesn't apply at all to this situation. Here is the relevant passage:
QUOTE
``(2) No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
``(A) is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
``(B) has only limited commercially significant purpose or use other than to circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title; or
``Â is marketed by that person or another acting in concert with that person with that person's knowledge for use in circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.