Two distributors for the R4 homebrew DS cartridges in Japan have been fined a huge sum of dollars for damages to various developers/publishers.
The R4 carts, the leading piracy device for DS, are banned in Japan and it looks like distributors will have to be wary about trying to bring these devices to retail. Two R4 distributors were fined 95,625,000 yen ($944,966.25 US) in damages, payable to the likes of Nintendo, Konami, Capcom, Level-5, Namco Bandai and around fifty others affected by the ongoing portable piracy.
Nintendo have issued a statement that it will continue to go bananas on those distributing/selling the flashcarts going forward.
What are your thoughts on the R4, flashcarts and DS piracy?