Starting right about now-ish, the Wii Internet Channel can be acquired at a reasonable price of precisely zero Wii Points. If you paid for the Internet Channel at some point over the course of the last couple of years, you won't be getting a refund. On the other hand, you will be getting a free game:
If you have previously used 500 Wii Points to download the Internet Channel, at the end of October we will be offering you the opportunity to download, at no cost, one NES game of your choice (valued at 500 Wii Points) from the Virtual Console catalog. Details of this download offer will be provided via the Wii Message Board and on Nintendo.com soon.
Fair enough, I suppose.
