You're trying to be mister goody two shoes but ''exploring the innerworking of a console'' isn't pleasing nintendo because they don't even want you to hack or explore in any other way than how they gave it to you. so you're not innocent.
As for bans. I never mention bans to start with but to answer that, there's always a way around it. And i never enough to get caught. On wii wii u etc. I even used hacks on mario kart and spam red shells. does that bother you? C:
There's countless of threads about emulators, playing backups, and A LOT of threads about TCP gecko. Which should I remind you is about cheating on a video game. Tcp gecko is talked about everywhere so you don't speak for everyone. Wii U usb helper HELPS people PIRATE games. So stop lol