3DS is Watching You: Activity-Logging and Anti-Piracy Features

[CrystalShadow]

I have been reading about this, I don't think they can legally brick your property. I think this will be along the same lines as with the Wii. An update can brick your Wii if you have homebrew on it but you have to choose to update.

Now, if the 3DS updates itself without asking permission, I think the lawsuits will start flying.

Gamers really should stop sending the message that "anything goes" where fighting piracy is concerned. Nintendo might be under the illusion that gamers will support nonsense like this.

I swear, this industry is shooting itself in the foot. Why do game companies put fighting pirates above the legitimate, paying customer?

Dunno. The irony is, if you read older comments, Nintendo themselves has never cared quite that much about it. They say they do, obviously, but their DRM schemes have always tended to be pretty weak and easy to crack.

And the first articles about the 3DS says it has massively improved DRM mostly because 3rd party developers were complaining.

Eh. If you make a game console, you clearly have more to worry about than keeping your customers happy.

But it still sucks, that's for sure.

 

[Leg End]

I can't be the only one thinking that this "always-on" feature is going to burn through battery life.

How else will it maintain a permanent wifi signal?

And I wouldn't be surprised if someone got through this in weeks.

You are certainly not. :/

By Nintendo mageek.

Weeks? Try Hours. (O_O)

 

[Asuka Soryu]

Ha, I don't have Wi-Fi! Try connecting to me now, Nintendo~ Muahahaha!

 

[feather240]

Nope, not buying it now.

 

[icame]

Good idea. Hope it works. The pirates certainly deserve it. Oh sorry *finger-quotes* Homebrew

Might eat a bit of battery though :/

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Ha, I don't have Wi-Fi! Try connecting to me now, Nintendo~ Muahahaha!

You better hope that if any of your neighbours have wifi they've at least bothered to secure it, then.

 

[lacktheknack]

Not really. If you can't play it because it won't function, it is broken. That Nintendo can fix it doesn't mean it wasn't broken.

Fine.

However, they WARNED you that they'd "break" (disable) it if you break the law with it. I can back that.

 

[p3t3r]

all they need to do is make it easy to have home brew software then the piracy will go down. i mean ps3 wans't hacked for so long because people could do whatever they want with it

 

[SyphonX]

Everything is a 'crime' these days.

They're getting a little Orwellian with games, including silly handhelds.

Is no one else a little creeped-out from all of this?

 

[lacktheknack]

Not really. If you can't play it because it won't function, it is broken. That Nintendo can fix it doesn't mean it wasn't broken.

Fine.

However, they WARNED you that they'd "break" (disable) it if you break the law with it. I can back that.

If Ford warns you that they will remotely break or disable your car if you go over the speed limit, it would still be wrong (and illegal I imagine) if they actually did it. They can say whatever they want to the press, they can type whatever they want in the EULA but when they actually start bricking 3DS's they will be in the wrong and likely sued.

For speeding, yes.

For containing illegal property, I imagine they could get the law on their side for that.

So can Nintendo.

 

[AngelicSven]

So, this would suck if someone who isn't you downloaded a pirate game on it then updated it, resulting in a bricked 3DS?

My friends who get one are going to hate my new hobby.

 

[zehydra]

Well, since I'll be playing it legitimately, and there's nothing I really need to hide from Nintendo, it'll be as if this feature doesn't exist for me.

Why should I bother being angry about it?

 

[lacktheknack]

Not really. If you can't play it because it won't function, it is broken. That Nintendo can fix it doesn't mean it wasn't broken.

Fine.

However, they WARNED you that they'd "break" (disable) it if you break the law with it. I can back that.

If Ford warns you that they will remotely break or disable your car if you go over the speed limit, it would still be wrong (and illegal I imagine) if they actually did it. They can say whatever they want to the press, they can type whatever they want in the EULA but when they actually start bricking 3DS's they will be in the wrong and likely sued.

For speeding, yes.

For containing illegal property, I imagine they could get the law on their side for that.

So can Nintendo.

I don't think so, corporations cannot take the law into their own hands.

I still can't muster up sympathy for the bricked, because THEY are just as guilty of lawbreaking as Nintendo might be.

 

[Bobkat1252]

I thought about purchasing a 3DS after not owning any gameboy for a long time, but this just squashed that idea. I don't like piracy, but I like invasive anti-piracy methods even less.