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12:00AM Brian Ashcraft | See those signs? They read, “Majikon” — Japanese for R4. And they are pointing into a random apartment building. More »
R4 Sales Get Shadier And Shadier
12:00AM Brian Ashcraft | See those signs? They read, “Majikon” — Japanese for R4. And they are pointing into a random apartment building. More » 
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Ready To Rat Out R4 Sellers? Nintendo Is Here To Help
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Earlier this year, Nintendo announced that it and 54 software game companies were filing a lawsuit with the Tokyo District Court against companies that import “R4 Revolution”-type devices, using the Unfair Competition Prevention Law as the legal grounding. More »
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Nintendo Slips In Anti-Piracy Measures Into DSi Update
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | That recent DSi update that brought Facebook to Japanese DSi handhelds also brought something else: software to combat R4-type piracy devices. More »
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Let’s Research Game Piracy On Japanese Trains
7:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Field research time! Website Gpara wandered up and down train carriages on Tokyo’s Yamanote Line, looking for players using R4 piracy devices. More »
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The R4…Vending Machine
6:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Forget those mythical panty vending machines! This vending machine in Osaka’s Den-Den Town is selling R4 devices. More »
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In Akihabara, R4 Retailers Take To The Streets
5:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Nintendo has been fighting the R4 piracy device and fighting it hard. There’s a court injunction against the Chinese R4 makers for “violation under Japan’s laws”. Yahoo! Auctions is prohibiting the device’s sale. More »
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Court Injunction Or Not, R4 Devices Still On Sale In Akihabara
8:00PM Brian Ashcraft | The Tokyo District Court ruled an injunction against the Chinese R4 makers for “violation under Japan’s laws”. You’d think that would mean one couldn’t walk into a game shop and buy one. You’d think. More »
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Japanese Court Blocks Sales Of The DS’s R4 Cart
4:30PM Luke Plunkett | Last year, Nintendo (and 53 other companies) took action against the makers of the R4 cart, a device which allows, amongst other things, the pirating of games on a DS. Today, they won big. More »
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