A year ago today I released the homebrew Space Game for Wii U. Hard to believe how quickly time has gone by since then. It's been a busy year for the Wii U though! (even if it's just the Wii U)
I want to thank everyone in the community for helping make it (the scene) what it is today. There are...
Here's the history on the hacking of the Wii: http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Team_Twiizers
They very clearly had a stance and it was against piracy. So the first half of your post is just speculation.
The Wii had plenty (PLENTY) of non-warez homebrew...
It's not the movies or games downloads that I would worry about, like breaking into networks, downloading encrypted things, spying on network traffic. I have seen so many "Top Secret" seals on files when I was a kid
I was obsessed with finding UFOs, a surprising amount of US files where stashed on computers in other countries, China back in the early 90s omg sooo much