Net Privacy Campaign to 'Brick Nintendo Before They Brick You' KIcks In
3DS privacy under fire
A chap called Joshua Gay has decided to take against the terms and conditions that users need to agree to in order to get their 3DSs up and running. He's started a campaign in which he asks people to send cardboard 'bricks' to Nintendo in protest against the privacy elements in the Ts&Cs.
The campaign, called, 'Brick Nintendo before they brick you!' tells users:
"The Nintendo 3DS comes with Terms of Service (TOS) that should not be accepted. To enforce these terms, Nintendo uses Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology. Because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), users are legally prohibited from modifying their devices to block Nintendo's nastiness. This combination of legal and technological restrictions makes the Nintendo 3DS dubious, devious, and defective. This page outlines some of the nastier parts of the DRM-enforced TOS."
Joshau also points out that, "The Nintendo 3DS keeps track of every game you play, along with any data or information created while using the device. This includes personal data such as any name, address, or other information you enter; as well as "age, gender, geographic area, game play data, online status, Nintendo 3DS System serial number and device ID, device certificate information, cookies, Friend Codes, wireless access point information, Internet Protocol ('IP') address, and Media Access Control ('MAC') address" (to quote the Nintendo 3DS System Privacy Policy). Further, they collect all "User Content," which they define as all "[...] comments, messages, images, photos, movies, information, data and other content" (Chapter 6, Nintendo 3DS End User License Agreement)."
So far, 200 bricks have been sent.
More information here.
The campaign, called, 'Brick Nintendo before they brick you!' tells users:
"The Nintendo 3DS comes with Terms of Service (TOS) that should not be accepted. To enforce these terms, Nintendo uses Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology. Because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), users are legally prohibited from modifying their devices to block Nintendo's nastiness. This combination of legal and technological restrictions makes the Nintendo 3DS dubious, devious, and defective. This page outlines some of the nastier parts of the DRM-enforced TOS."
Joshau also points out that, "The Nintendo 3DS keeps track of every game you play, along with any data or information created while using the device. This includes personal data such as any name, address, or other information you enter; as well as "age, gender, geographic area, game play data, online status, Nintendo 3DS System serial number and device ID, device certificate information, cookies, Friend Codes, wireless access point information, Internet Protocol ('IP') address, and Media Access Control ('MAC') address" (to quote the Nintendo 3DS System Privacy Policy). Further, they collect all "User Content," which they define as all "[...] comments, messages, images, photos, movies, information, data and other content" (Chapter 6, Nintendo 3DS End User License Agreement)."
So far, 200 bricks have been sent.
More information here.
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Cfan 20 May 2011 10:04
1/2
At the moment, flash cards are working with the 3DS, I think people are more worried about Ninty bricking their systems when the data comes back to back to them via the eshop update and reports these peeps as using flash cards. although you can do a system restore to remove all the collected data.
It's a shame really for the homebrew community, I have Manic Miner: the lost levels DS, but don't want to take any risks playing it :(
It's a shame really for the homebrew community, I have Manic Miner: the lost levels DS, but don't want to take any risks playing it :(
Navid 2 Jul 2011 16:10
2/2
Oh yeah, faboulus stuff there you!