Haha, I don't thing any company would seriously engage in this. At the risk of losing legal users on top of that. People who are not guilty of any piracy are affected by DRM and system bans all the time. The shit part is, out of everyone, pirates will be the least affected by such a thing.
vrbtny said:
All the overbearing, completely OTT control freak/anti-piracy thing aside..... can I say?
Pirates are gonna get Owned.
I don't think this is true. Pirates won't get owned because it's a simple numbers game. Nintendo will have a team of people trying to create an evolving anti piracy environment, and there will be hundreds of people working to overcome it, in turn. Don't get me wrong, I am not a fan of piracy, it's just naive to think that some new security is going to come along and make pirate life hard. The most successful anti-piracy was Sony PS3. As soon as that got out, it opened the flood gates. Now they are suing "hackers" and what not, and if it's anything like jail breaking the iPhone, it won't stop, and the law may even be on their side. If you recall, the judge determined that they were not doing anything illegal by unlocking the system capabilities. The CFW created by Geohotz, for example, doesn't enable piracy.
Salmaras said:
It does seem a little bit overkill but at least they're being frank, anyone who does it anyway and complains when their console stops working kind of had it coming
I agree, they completely had it coming. But what about the folks affected by it that will not be guilty? The thing is, when you go and break a systems security, there is an understanding that you may lose your system. I know, I lost a PSP this way one time. I have a legit one now, but I was poor and interested in trying it to see how it worked. I bought another one shortly after that one got bricked. Later on I successfully "hacked" it. But, it wasn't worth the trouble and I had improved my money situation, so I made it legit. If your interested in downloading games for free, then you will find a way, and your more than likely ok with the risk. The reward vastly out weighs the risk I think. I am an honest guy, so the risk wasn't worth it for me, so I stopped.