American DS Owners A Right Lot of Pirates
The British watchdog organization Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA) has made some pretty strong, fairly stupid comments of late regarding the high percentage of North American DS owners that surely, thanks to its powers of deduction, must be pirates. Like most consoles, a user modded DS system with an R4 chip allows players to skirt authentication protocols on the system and download illegal game copies at will. Bad news? Well sure.
Just how many N. American gamers are contributing to the DS piracy problem? How many, out of the 8.5 units sold in the U.S. last year, are breaking the law? ELSPA estimates put the figure at a ridiculously astounding 90%. Yes, nine zero percent.
ELSPA rep John Hillier had the following to say to the Sunday Post:
Legitimate business is at serious risk from the R4… The R4 in effect blinds the console and makes it think it’s seeing a genuine game…
The implications are massive. In America it’s thought 90 per cent of Nintendo DS users are playing pirated games because of R4s. Takings from Nintendo DS games in the US are lower than any other console and no doubt it will have a similar impact here…
The R4 has shifted balance of power in the piracy industry to the consumer — and that is hugely worrying. That’s why we intend to stop trade in these chips wherever we can.
First off, do you even think that 90% of the DS owners in the world even know what a mod chip is, never mind how to get it to work and what to do with it? I’m guessing not. Out of the people I know that own a DS, I doubt 90% of them could properly program the date/time on their DVD player, never mind be a super I337 DS HaXxOR in their spare time.
Via | NextGen
1 opinion for American DS Owners A Right Lot of Pirates
Bruceongames
Feb 18, 2008 at 7:40 pm
We live in an age were many millions of people get away with stealing (6 million in the UK alone) . And they think nothing of it. They get all their entertainment for free. They download games, music and films at will.
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