While us Yankees are celebrating the one small victory for all that’s right and good represented by the recent DMCA jailbreak exception , things are looking a little bleaker for UK gadget-heads this afternoon. London’s High Court has ruled that R4 cards , which are used by homebrewers and the occasional no-goodnik game pirate to circumvent security on the Nintendo DS, cannot be sold, advertised, or imported into the UK. According to Joystiq , Nintendo claims they’ve seized over 100,000 R4 devices in the country since 2009. When asked for a comment, the Queen was all like, “What?” UK bans R4 cards, makes Nintendo DS pirating ‘double illegal’ originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink   Joystiq  |  Develop  |  Email this  |  Comments

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UK bans R4 cards, makes Nintendo DS pirating ‘double illegal’