Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy (www.bbc.com)
from ABCDE@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2024 10:45
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2024 10:45 next collapse
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ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place on 14 Sep 2024 11:19 next collapse

No surprise here. Those were idiots trying to profit from someone else’s labour. It’s not illegal to sell a retro gaming console capable of playing gba games (to name one), what’s illegal, and these imbeciles should have known is to sell them full of licensed games.

Well deserved imho.

Edit: gotta love getting downvoted for this. I guess people are butthurt because someone profiting from piracy got screwed. Well, that’s how it is. These guys could have sold the consoles without games and nothing could have happened. Piracy by itself shouldn’t be about profiting from other people’s work. That’s why every single cracker group tells you that if you paid for their cracked games, you were scammed.

But I guess people think that profiting from piracy is fine… Oh well…

roboto@feddit.org on 14 Sep 2024 11:46 next collapse

I really couldn’t care less that they sell consoles that allow you to play like what 30 year old games. I find it very problematic that apparently these devices weren’t compliant to safety regulations in the EU, but otherwise who cares?

Moonrise2473@feddit.it on 14 Sep 2024 12:02 collapse

Not having a certification doesn’t mean it’s not compliant.

It’s probably compliant, but they didn’t want to pay €50k to get it certified

roboto@feddit.org on 14 Sep 2024 12:04 next collapse

Important detail I guess. In that case I wouldn’t care at all.

WildPalmTree@lemmy.world on 14 Sep 2024 15:30 collapse

If you’ve built it reasonably right, that’s not what it costs.

Moonrise2473@feddit.it on 14 Sep 2024 13:25 collapse

Technically, it still is illegal to sell electronics without CE certification

Although a headline like “3 cubic meters of worthless famiclones have been seized” isn’t as strong

Moonrise2473@feddit.it on 14 Sep 2024 12:06 collapse

a figure which includes the value of the consoles and hundreds of licenses for the pirated programs.

So it’s just 12k consoles with 4000 pirated ROMs inside

Actual value is €300k, not 50 millions