"We take this very, very seriously and have initiated an aggressive program to stop the people that are behind these (intellectual property rights) violations. We're working to develop our copy protection mechanisms to make this even more difficult in the future." I wonder if he actually believe thoose words... Can someone in that position be that clueless/inexperienced with computer software? Is he kidding himself, or is he just trying to kid someone else?

My question is who actually purchased this taco in the first place? lol. I'm sorry to see that hackers have cracked it, but I have to agree a little with grimson. Nokia's sales of the N-Gage have been so extreme low (almost non-existent) that they must be looking at this as a way to sell more of these $300 'Tacos' (that word can't be used enough to describe the N-Gage). Unless they sell several million of these things by 2k4, the N-Gage venture will be a bust. Nokia's only hope is to lower the price to say $100. But $300? What were they thinking? I could by 3 Gamecubes or an XBox with a few games or a PS2 with a few games for the price of the Taco.

Partly true, but nokia can make money from hardware, valve cant. Its not even very new hardware, its just a jazzed up 7650 inside. Im not sure how much the games are but ive always thought that mobile games are overpriced. If they are a reasonable cost it wouldnt be worth the download of a hacked game. From what i can gather the defeting of the protection allows playing the games on other hardware, rather than playing free games on the n-gage. Its possible to play many games on the Motorola A920 (3G) phone with an n-gage emulator.

Would nokia make the money from the games or would the networks ?

No im not saying its ok, but it could have been far worse for valve than for nokia. Most games on the n-gage are not nokia creations anyway. I think mobile phone makers and networks need to realise that the prices they charge for their servicies are way to high or often restricted (listening '3' ?) thats why people try to hack around them.

ok fair enough, but did they break the code by reverse engineering the n-gage or by hacking into the nokia network and stealing something ?? To me its 2 very different things.