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...
I may try the new ram site, and download more RAM to my Switch. Not sure if ddr3 is the right ram
for it tho. Edit- no it uses floppy Ram, just like @AncientBoi