More sellers of R4 cards and Wii mod chips found guilty of IP infringement.
A court in the Netherlands has found 11 online sellers of R4 cards and Wii mod chips guilty of infringing on Nintendo's intellectual property rights.
The retailers were both importing and selling the cards and modchips, which allow DS owners to store and play copied games and Wii owners to play pirated software. The retailers argued that Nintendo's suit amounted to unfair competition by preventing them from selling their products, an argument that the Hague District court rejected.
The lawsuit is part of a larger anti-piracy campaign by Nintendo, which has vigorously prosecuted pirates around the globe for the last several years. One of the focuses of their upcoming 3DS console is including hardware technology squarely aimed at curbing the rampant piracy that has occured with their Nintendo DS system.