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Italy busts ring trafficking retro video games from China (www.yahoo.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not much info here but I wonder if these were some sort of fake NES/SNES/Mega Drive minis or just handheld emulation devices in general

I was wondering if shipping SD cards full of ROMs would ever come to bite the manufacturers in the ass and I guess it might have. Will this be a one-off thing or a sign of a wider EU crackdown? I think there was a warning earlier issued by some agency this month about how the solder in one of the Anbernic devices exceeded EU's maximum lead levels

Edit: There's a video of the Italian cops' raid on the warehouse where the devices were being held, looks like a large variety of different devices

https://youtu.be/U4lYIzijJSU?si=mmvXSsipSaMEnaOv

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Around 12,000 consoles with 47 million games

No. That is incorrect. Each console had a few thousand games, and you did bullshit math to make that sound worse. Each copy of a rom does not count as an individual video game, that’s an insane way to measure things.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

10 grams of Mario would be worth 50k on the streets according to Cop Math™️

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Like, this would mean that if I took a rom for Super Mario Bros and hit ctrl-c ctrl-v 10,000 times you could say I have 10,000 video games. Thats insanity.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure Nintendo's lawyer ghouls would argue you just described illegally producing 10,000 illegal copies of SMB and would need to be punished accordingly

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve barbara-pit

Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

Infinite crime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm freebasing Mario Sunshine, fuck the police.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Going into a Fluddhole

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

But what about those Famicom cassettes on which it is written "9999999 games in 1!"?