The Paris’ Court of Appeals last week issued €4.8 million ($6.6 million) in fines against a half-dozen companies importing and selling devices that can be used on Nintendo platforms to play homebrew and pirated games, Electronic Theater reports.
The report calls these devices “linkers” but says they’re also know as R4 cards or Magicom. The court imposed more than €460,000 ($633,000) in criminal fines, damages payable to Nintendo in excess of €4.8 million and, in some instances, ordered suspended prison terms.
That last thing means: Do it again and you could go to prison.
Franz
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:22 AMAnd then everyone smoked cigrettes.
Timothy
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:31 AMThis is one of the reasons why I hate pirates, they cause issues for homebrew developers :(
andy
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 10:40 AMthen the judge was like i would force you to pay but im le tired
Jayden
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 1:44 PMFine zen take a nap, ZEN TAKE ALL THERE MONEYS
allanon10101
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:00 PMLast I heard, R4 cards aren’t actually illegal in and of themselves. Has this changed?
matt
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:36 PMthe cards are just a form of storage device, i can’t see it being possible to illegalize them, so i bet you can still get them. This is a waste of time, pirating is here to stay lol welcome to the internet.