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NEW SUBSECTION. Not sure if this should be here... putting it here anyways. Maybe someone could find a more appropriate place for it or maybe it is fine where it is.
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*WiiLi, headed by tuxiido. WiiLi is a failure that refuses to die and will never make good on it's promises. It is known for stolen content and a fake Linux bounty as well as a lot of other evil drama stemming from the dictatorial oppression of it's owner. A sad and lonely place.
*WiiLi, headed by tuxiido. WiiLi is a failure that refuses to die and will never make good on it's promises. It is known for stolen content and a fake Linux bounty as well as a lot of other evil drama stemming from the dictatorial oppression of it's owner. A sad and lonely place.
*Cheaters who use homebrew to screw other players over in online play, giving hackers and homebrew a bad name.
*Cheaters who use homebrew to screw other players over in online play, giving hackers and homebrew a bad name.
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+=== Controversy ===
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+Due to Twiizer's stance on piracy and their efforts to keep Nintendo from making things more difficult for homebrewers, the team has had to keep several details about certain exploits and pieces of code under wraps. These measures have caused some concern within the community of end-users, many of whom feel that all of the code and the details of exploits should be made publicly available to everyone, not simply a portion of it. Still others are upset over rumors and misinformation surrounding the issue, and yet more are simply spurned by the deliberate attempt to exclude software pirates. A few simple facts should be noted:
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+:1. Homebrew is not illegal, nor is any of the reverse engineering that was done in order to enable it. However, software piracy ''is'' illegal. This is not to say that laws do not vary from country to country, but as a general rule, it holds.
+:2. Twiizers has never used any copyrighted/stolen code in their projects. Everything they have released has been created with original code. As such, they retain the right to do with it as they wish.
+:3. Releasing the details of exploits along with certain code would be giving a free hand to pirates while alerting Nintendo to exactly what they needed to patch. Since this would go against the anti-piracy stance of Twiizers as well as making things harder on homebrew developers and their end-users, it is obvious why it has not been done.
+:4. Twiizers does not profit from their work. Period. All money goes directly into paying for bandwidth costs.
+:5. Team Twiizers is part of a larger community of hacking and coding enthusiasts/hobbyists for whom they shoulder some of the responsibility in keeping the ball rolling. Since that is the case, many of the administrative actions taken by Twiizers are done directly in that interest.
== See Also ==
== See Also ==