With the recent court decision to quash the sale of DS hack devices, or “majikon”, Nintendo has been celebrating a “victory over piracy”, but voices are not unanimous in supporting the move, with some even suggesting it may hurt Nintendo more than it helps them.
Nintendo themselves claim a 3 billion dollar loss to the piracy…
Quoth a report on the subject by ITmedia:
“On the other hand, there is also a significant “majikon preservation” minority, who say ‘prohibiting sales has gone too far’.
‘There are many who are just backing up their game collections, as well as those running homebrew, so it’s not the case at all that everyone using a majikon is just intent on playing for free.’
Just how many support such views is not clear. There are also those who sound intent on justifying majikon use by whatever means, saying that the ban ‘violates the Unfair Competition Prevention Law’, and is therefore invalid.
‘There are many products with potentially illegal uses still being sold. Why have they only targeted the majikon for restrictions, and not these others?’
‘Makers who don’t publish games which make people want to play so much that they will pay bear responsibility for this.’
‘If majikon are no longer around, gamers will decrease in numbers even further.’”
Nintendo for its part is claiming a loss of 300,000,000,000 yen (or 3 billion dollars) to piracy, doubtless based on the usual optimistic arithmetic of “copies made times RRP”…
I love when they come up with figures like that, it just makes them look stupid and not very convincing at all.
Playing Devil Survivor by an hacking cadridge right now.
Quite the hypocrite bullshit allright.
These “Mommy gave me money, I’m a happy snickers kid” truly do amuse me.
Piracy is stealing my ass. Just like it was said.
What do the companies really lose? Nothing, piracy is actually more profitable than what it does harm.
Do you retards really think that if some guy doesn’t download that movie/game/whatever from TEH INTERNETS he’ll just go and buy it?
I’ve downloaded countless games, movies and bloody anime and I can still agree to have been a zillion times more profitable to the providers than most of you “PIRACY IS STEALING” retards.
I’ve put something around 4000$ in just anime.
I’ve “marketed” it to god knows how many friends, them putting atleast a 1000$ And I’m an unemployed poor f♥♥k. What would’ve I put in the anime industry had I not ever watched fansubs and thus never encountering anime in the first place? Not a fucking thing.
And what does the average “PIRACY IS A CRIME!!” retard do.
You cry about “PIRACY IS A CRIME! YOU HAS NO RIGHT” with the money your daddy gave you and just go f♥♥k yourself.
People who talk about not pirating are just fucking retarded hypocrites or faggots. Who the f♥♥k doesn’t want stuff for free? Can you guys say you’ve never download a single thing off the intarwebs? Grow up.
Good call SnooSnoo….everyone who took the “piracy is wrong” highroad in this thread no doubt downloads anime illegally. If you watch a current anime series from Japan, you are breaking the law. The legal way to watch anime is to wait years for a local release and if you don’t get a release, the legal thing to do is NOT watch.
Funimation would like to have a word with you..
It is also illegal to record TV shows with a VCR so that you can watch them later.
All that obey national copyright laws, IE: The US, UK, Japan, etc.
In what countries?
agree…
well living in asia this item sounds useful for back-up for games…. i for one suffer fro, the ds card rusting due to humidity… i own maybe 5 or more games now officially unplayable….