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    Nintendo wins DS modchip lawsuit

    On the heels of its $1.5 million victory against a Queenslander for uploading a copy of New Super Mario Bros to the internet, Nintendo Australia has reportedly won a landmark lawsuit against a local distributor of the R4 cartridge which allows users to pirate Nintendo DS games.

    Nintendo has not yet responded to a request for comment, and the other party, RSJ IT Solutions, who operates the gadgetgear.com.au website declined to comment on the matter. The reported judgement has not yet been made available online.

    But iTnews.com.au today reported that the Federal Court of Australia had today ordered that RSJ cease to sell the chip and pay Nintendo $520,000 in damages. Two affiliated respondents, Patrick Li and James Li, were also named in the case, and ordered to pay Nintendo a further $100,000.

    The R4 cartridge — which is popular internationally — runs its own operating system for Nintendo’s DS handheld device. Individual games and other applications, some of them purporting to be legal, can be downloaded from the internet as small files and simply added to the chip’s storage.

    The cartridge is then slotted into the top of a Nintendo DS as any other cartridge would be. It does not permanently modify the handheld console. It is sold by a number of Australian and international distributors

    The news comes as Nintendo Australia appears to be ramping up its fight against game piracy. Last week it was revealed that it had successfully sued a Queensland resident for uploading to the internet a copy of its Wii game New Super Mario Bros a week before its Australian release in November last year.

    The Queenslander — named by multiple media outlets as James Burt — has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay Nintendo $1.5 million. At the time, Nintendo said it would pursue anyone who breached its intellectual property rights “using all means available to it under the law”.

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    1. Steve Smith
      Posted 18/02/2010 at 11:41 pm | Permalink | Reply

      "purporting to be legal"? Some of them ARE.

    2. Posted 19/02/2010 at 12:16 am | Permalink | Reply

      Heh I think you're right Steve. But at this point the legality of running *anything* other than Nintendo signed code via cartridges or otherwise on the DS is a bit up in the air. So I had to make sure I covered myself in the article by making it clear there was doubt.

    3. Posted 20/01/2011 at 2:19 am | Permalink | Reply

      There are a lot of games and homebrew applications that people can use on their r4 ds cards. While I know that the chance to pirate is there – but then, it’s there with cd / dvd burners, dual tape cassette decks (Showing my age perhaps? ;-) ) and various other forms of gadgets that can potentially be used to copy or backup, or be used for illegal purposes. But there truly are thousands of free games and apps on website like http://www.ndshb.com and devscene.com that are free, legal, and made by developers for people with an r4 or other nds flash card.

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