Thread: Spanish court silences Nintendo over DS flash carts, rules they ADD functionality!

As we all know, Nintendo has been making quite an effort to fight against DS flash carts. However, their complaints against devices such as the R4 have been dismissed by a Spanish Judge who ruled that the respective devices can actually ADD functionality to the DS and it's not all about piracy!

Spanish copyright law includes an anti-circumvention clause, but as Leo Martins alerts us, a judge in Salamanca, Spain has taken a much more nuanced view of it in a case pitting Nintendo against Grupo Movilquick, who produced alternative cartridges for Nintendo DS devices. The judge's ruling (translated from the original) appears to find that the alternative cartridges do, in fact, circumvent Nintendo's DRM and can be used for "pirating" games, but also extend the utility of the devices for perfectly legal purposes. For that reason, the judge dismissed the lawsuit (translation from the original) noting that it doesn't make sense that the law would be intended to say that only Nintendo can expand the functionality of its devices, and the fact that Nintendo doesn't offer similar functionality shouldn't preclude others from doing so. There are areas where Nintendo can still bring a lawsuit, such as for patent and trademark issues, but the judge notes those should be dealt with in a civil court.

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Sometimes i think nintendo is going the apple way. They make it like monopoly over their hardware and device issues. I mean what's there so much to fight for ?