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R4DS Opens Door For Pirates Technology Articles | September 25 Derek Wolfe Shirt , 2008
The R4DS is an adaptor to connect a Nintendo DS to a flash memory card. It's easy to use and unlocks a lot of potential for the handheld console. Despite this, it's one accessory Nintendo hopes stays firmly on the shelves this Chrismas.

Regardless of the many just uses of the device, Nintendo are only concerned with one. It is a use that you won't see advertised in the stores where it sells for less than the cost of a single DS game. The fear is that the device enables video games piracy.

Video games piracy is fairly common on systems that use media available to consumers in writeable format. This includes PC games copied from the original DVD onto a writeable disc. Slightly more difficult to pirate are games for consoles which run games from DVDs. The disc can be copied in the same fashion; however the hardware must be altered to bypass anti-piracy mechanisms.

The Nintendo DS is one system that has until now be free of piracy because of the use of cartridges which cannot be written to by commercially available products. On the other hand Chris Harris Jr Shirt , flash memory cards are simple to write to and the R4DS allows the Nintendo DS to interface with a flash memory card, therefore enabling piracy.

As with advocates of illegal music downloads, video game pirates claim they are being charged too much for games Emmanuel Sanders Shirt , with many games being reworks of existing titles from older systems and blaming corporate greed. The opponents fight back arguing that number of hours entertainment from a game balances out the expenses.

Nintendo are likely to take on the R4DS with improvements to the anti-piracy technology inside cartridges. This is likely to be met by pirates soon after working a way round any new anti-piracy techniques. It is very much an on going battle.