Bad news, the Wii update last night appears to have rendered Freeloaders inoperable. It's understandable why Nintendo blocked it, the Freeloader is an unlicensed product after all. However, what I don't understand -- why go through the trouble to block it? The disc only allows you to play games from another region on your Wii.
Certainly a minuscule amount of users are actually using it. Plus, the disc cannot be used for piracy purposes... so what's the deal here? All I can see is that this will piss off importers.
Wii Update Breaking Freeloaders [Kotaku]