French court rules that Nintendo illegally locks/protects consoles from user access

[Qriist]

Although this is Nintendo-centric, it is big enough that it could apply to all systems in time. I just wish I could find someone more reliable than Maxconsole as a source, but most pages link back to there. Take it with a grain of salt.

We have just heard that Nintendo has today lost a major court case against the Divineo group in the main court of Paris. Nintendo originally took the group to court over DS flash carts, however the judge today has ruled against Nintendo and suggested that they are purposely locking out developers from their consoles and things should be more like Windows where ANYONE can develop any application if they wish to.

The ramifications of this are huge, as it indicates that flash carts are actually legal. Moroever, it could have bigger implications for developers and the like because Nintendo is deemed to be 'illegally' protecting their system by locking users out. Therefore, developers should not actually require separate development kits and should just be able to develop applications as they wish on retail versions of Nintendo's consoles.

And on a final note, this truly was a HUGE court case, up in the main court of Paris France and seems likely to be relevant to the whole of Europe.

Essentially, if people have to 'hack' the system and use Flash Carts to do develop, then it's all fine because Nintendo has left them with little other choice and the system should not be protected in such a restrictive way.

Full court documents will be available soon.

Source

[drewmerc]

first the Spanish now the French, nintendo will now try the uk and watch us fuck it up completely

[beano]

Originally Posted by drewmerc

first the Spanish now the French, nintendo will now try the uk and watch us fuck it up completely

all they have to do is give mandy a boat ride and he'll bend over and take it up the ar$e, then he'll make the rest of us bend over