Poor guy? Sorry, but I have absolutely no sympathy whatsoever for people that steal and/or enable others to steal.

Excuse me, do I know you?

But the thing is, if you don't want to spend the money on a product, then your choice is to not have the product, not "I think they're charging too much, so I'll steal it", or "I don't really want this, so I'll steal it". I'm sorry, but I see no possible way to justify theft. Call me whatever names you like, kick me off the damn site, but there is nothing in the world that pisses me off more than this.

@Matt Exactly. Lets get one thing out of the way here. Much like Apple, Nintendo has a successful business model in play, and to those oblivious to it, won't see that (and let's be honest, are potentially primary targets) Nintendo work their hardware "innovations" into the audience by incremental experimentation. i.e. consumer = guinea pig. The DS was a disruptive experiment and it paid off. Nintendo absorbed all those results and injected it into the Wii with more disruptive elements. Nintendo will incrementally push and push and absorb all consumer reception so they can add it to their repertoire of both incremental and decremental concepts/goals/agendas. They don't care about us, and much like a curious scientist, they will relentlessly experiment on our product fetishes until they've sucked us completely dry (eliminate current business model for a new unprecedented one).

For this, they are heartless and faceless - excuse the french - cunts. So yea, when it comes to THEM defending their own software from piracy, I find that to be complete and utter horse shit. Who is it really affecting here? and who are the conglomerate thieves forcing their products to have exclusive peripherals in order to access them? That's like saying "you can have the keys, but you'll need this much money to have the car" what's the point? Sure they bundle them with the games that need them, but when a game like Wii Fit costs about half the price of Xbox 360, which would cost one third of that to actually MAKE it, you've gotta ask yourself who's CONCEALING information from the consumer when they buy their products.

Top that off with the fact that it probably took 3 months to graphically design the game and it being the second best selling video game in history, it really seems quite bothersome that Nintendo is now potentially putting up smokes and mirrors through the media to instill fear into people minds on pirating NINTENDO BRANDED SOFTWARE tm. Fuck them, who do they think they are? If you removed law from this equation, you'd be basically looking at electroshock therapy through financial capitalism. No shit. IWATA SAYS! "Hey download our shit and we will fuck you hard, so you better buy our shit where we'll see fit how much it costs to obtain, fuck you, we print our own monies, keep buying you pieces of shit, I can't get over how sweet this new yacht looks, suck it chumps" laughs .

Having said all that, yes people are degenerate and will take what ever they feel like without a care for the consequences. But Nintendo has the power to protect themselves, so to me, this (if it isn't indeed, a hoax/scheme) is fucking atrocious. No one benefits from this, not even the smaller guys in the video game industry. It only benefits one single bloated entity, and one that doesn't need any salvation from piracy. You wanna know what hurts the industry with piracy? People who download games from guys like Platinum Games, Wayforward Technologies, Starbreeze Studios, Camelot Software Planning etc, guys that would benefit from as much sales as possible, some of which only matter for a week on the store shelf before the shipment cycle ends and then BAM, bargain bins and second hand trade to keep the IP recognized, which again, has been known to prove absolutely nothing in terms of "success". Meanwhile Nintendo, the company who wouldn't flick a dime towards third party software developers (to you know, support their artistic causes and give a rich extensive software library) are more concerned about one fickle individual (of whom I actually KNEW) who has no chance of redeeming himself financially. That money could support many other great things, but alas, this boy must be TAUGHT a lesson! What a joke.

I'll pay my way no matter what but this kind of crap is not helping anyone, except for the enforcer at hand. In the end, everybody else looses.

Ultimately, the less money we spend on the games we love, the less reasons to call it art........and to think that people would spend more money on cigarettes and alcohol.......what a world we live in eh?

Damn right. I love those things!......excluding cigies, but I can replace that with my addiction for expresso coffee