RSSNintendo points finger at pirate countries, asks for help
By Tim Conneally | Published February 25, 2009, 6:20 PM
Not only have sales of Nintendo products continued to rise, but so has piracy of those products. In a report to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the body specializing in international trade agreements, Nintendo listed six countries where piracy of the Wii and DS are out of control.
The Special 301 process looks at the adequacy and effectiveness of intellectual property rights worldwide, and countries are then classified according to the frequency and severity of their violations of IP rights.
Nintendo listed China, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and Paraguay as major bastions of Nintendo piracy. The main problems Nintendo cited are game copiers and mod chips, and asked the USTR to help in dealing with the governments of these countries.
Nintendo noted Korea's recent improvements in piracy enforcement, evinced by this year's customs raid which resulted in the seizure of more than 75,000 game copiers. Nintendo targeted the makers of the R4 DS game copier, and classed them as a "repeat offender" in international piracy.
God, I love my R4DS's. Nintendos' answer, the DSi. Nothing special except two cameras and the GBA slot they eliminated. They did incorporate a browser and a new way to change firmware to keep R4DS and similar cards from working in the future.
The regular DS will shoot up in price on the secondary market when they are all gone from retail stores. No one wants the DS you can't hack and play pirated games on.
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|Why?
Well, perhaps because those pirated materials are being imported and sold in the largest Nintendo market, which is ironically, the US.
And US law covers the importation and redistribution of stolen and pirated goods in the US.
And this makes it a US issue, where Japan has neither legal standing nor legal jurisdiction.
If, on the other hand, the preponderance of the materials were being transported and sold in, say, South Africa, they could then petition the South Africans...
Pretty complicated concept isn't it? Nitwits.
But try explaining such a simple concept to mental Neanderthals like PrimordialSlimeMold below and his cadre of mental midgets.
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|so accroding to you guys the U.S can do whatever they want like what they did with Iraq when the rest of the world didn't want them too
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|Why is it the US's problem to deal with it? Nintendo is a Japanese company. Let Japan deal with it.
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|Because the U.S has a propensity to put it's nose where it doesn't belong much of the time. It's the 'strong arm' of the world. The US talks, other countries listen, or else. So most companies tend to run to the U.S govt for help with things like this, no matter where they are based. And the U.S will listen, as long as said company is a sound 'moneymaker'.
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|As what Neoprimal said.
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|Sadly that sums up the Bush philosophy fairly well. Who appointed America the "World Police" anyway? It's not like other countries aren't capable of taking care of themselves (insert WW2 jibe here). Seriously though, as an American I wish our leaders would butt out where they're not wanted, which is pretty much everywhere. That's politics for ya....
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