Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy detected

Re:Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy d... by oct on Monday March 07, 2011 @10:05AM (#2297307)

Is there precedent for this? I can recall stories about getting cut off from a service if modding is detected but not about this sort of thing.

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Re:Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy d... by jcl on Monday March 07, 2011 @10:53AM (#2297465)

Valve's subscriber agreement says that they can close your Steam account (cutting off access to all of your games, even single-player ones) if they catch you cheating in certain multiplayer games.

And apparently the Blu-ray scheme has the ability to stop non-compliant players from playing new movies.

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Re:Nintendo reserves the right to brick your 3DS if piracy d... by mrcharles on Monday March 07, 2011 @10:07AM (#2297316)

Not for completely disabling hardware, no. The closest would be the risk of bricking your PSP but putting on custom firmware, but generally that was just a software issue or a user screwup, not a systemic attempt by a device manufacturer to screw the customer.

The closest is as you say, Xbox Live cutting you off from service if your console is modded.

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