>>713064234 (OP)
>are you really gonna simp for a company that takes your hardware away
Speaking legally. They're not taking your hardware away. You paid for the hardware, you can do whatever you want with the hardware. However, the software (OS in this case) and access to the store/online functionality is licensed. You don't own the OS or the Store and cannot do whatever you want to them without incident. Regarding the Mig flash cartridge specifically.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201
>No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title.
>No person shall manufacture, import, offer to the public, provide, or otherwise traffic in any technology, product, service, device, component, or part thereof, that—
>is primarily designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title;
These laws or variants of it exist in almost all modern countries, and the EULA is tailored per region in alignment with the local laws there.
Furthermore, this isn't anything new. Sony and Microsoft do the exact same thing with the Playstation consol, psn, xbox consoles and xbox live respectively. EVEN Valve banned people that were using pirated versions of Half-Life 2.
The reality is if you want to play games released on modern hardware, this is what you agree to. If you don't like it, don't buy any consoles or games Steam.
