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R4 cartridges, used to play pirated versions of games on Nintendo DS systems, have been ruled illegal to import, advertise and sell in the UK.
This first-ever judgement by the High Court of London is against Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan. The court ordered the defendant to stop selling the illegal devices immediately. The court also determined that although R4 devices can be used for homebrew purposes, the device must first circumvent Nintendo’s security systems.
“Nintendo promotes and fosters game development and creativity, and strongly supports the game developers who legitimately create new and innovative applications,” Nintendo said in a statement.
“Nintendo initiates these actions not only on its own behalf, but also on behalf of over 1,400 video game-development companies that depend on legitimate sales of games for their survival. In the U.K. alone, there have been over 100,000 game copying devices seized since 2009.”
Other favourable court decisions against sellers of game copiers have been issued in Australia, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the United States.
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