Posts Tagged ‘Legal’

The venerable R4 card, responsible for spearheading the wave of DS homebrew development, has been ruled illegal for import and sale in the whole of the United Kingdom after years of lobbying from Nintendo to have such products banned under claims that it and related products encourage piracy. Below are statements issued by Nintendo in [...]

Japanese news sources are filing multiple reports centered around a Japanese man being the first person arrested after using the Japanese Perfect Dark P2P filesharing program after uploading 10 instances of the currently airing Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood TV anime in one day. What makes the arrest significant is the fact that among Japanese anime enthusiasts, [...]

One of the first major BitTorrent trackers in Mininova has announced that it will no longer host torrents that are not uploaded by its approved media partners and as a response to a recent court order, has deleted nearly every torrent on its tracker page. Since being launched in 2004 in the wake of the [...]