tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22120968.post4466050460063645663..comments2024-03-22T13:47:33.583-04:00Comments on Jon Schneider's Tech Blog: Fool me once: Nintendo's policy on tranferring content purchased from Wii ShopJon Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05718316809087214442noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22120968.post-13138602885982963212010-12-13T17:35:28.876-05:002010-12-13T17:35:28.876-05:00Yeah, obviously Nintendo has the technical capabil...Yeah, obviously Nintendo has the technical capability to move a Wii Shop account from one console to another, since they will do it during certain repair situations; it's a matter of policy, not technology limitations.<br /><br />I imagine that the impetus behind the policy is anti-piracy. For example:<br />(1) Bad person, during a visit to someone else's home (maybe during a party?), surreptitiously records the Wii console serial number displayed on the outer casing of that home's Wii console<br />(2) Bad person records their own Wii's console serial number<br />(3) Bad person calls Nintendo support and says "Hi my old Wii broke, I bought a new one, the old serial number is ###, the replacement serial number is ###, please transfer my stuff!"<br />(4) Nintendo transfers the stuff<br />(5) Bad person can download a lot of free stuff and/or gain access to stored Wii Points from the victim's account; the victim (maybe) loses access to their downloaded content<br /><br />Still, you'd think that if sufficiently motivated, Nintendo could solve this problem through technology. For example, they could send a notification to the old console via the Wii's mail system along the lines of "A request has been to transfer your Wii Shop content to a new Wii console, serial number ###. Click the button below to allow this, or just delete/ignore this message to disallow." (This would be somewhat similar to the process for transferring an Internet domain name from one registrar to another.)<br /><br />This wouldn't work in cases where the old Wii console was completely dead, but it would work in a lot of cases.Jon Schneiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05718316809087214442noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22120968.post-7186340487835650642010-12-13T15:51:54.735-05:002010-12-13T15:51:54.735-05:00I didn't know that this was their policy. My w...I didn't know that this was their policy. My wii is in the noisy disk stage and luckily we haven't had any of the major problems. Really disappointing to hear that the games cannot be transferred. Seems like some bureaucratic BS considering they still have the ability to lock the games to the new console.Jestephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15546309839042241897noreply@blogger.com