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[–] 48 points 1 year ago (1 child)

It still makes no sense at all. Those handhelds are openly sold at Amazon, even from European warehouses. If you want to prevent the selling of ROMs, you have to tackle this problem and not some random YouTuber who maybe linked to a few Romsites or sold some via Telegram.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Easier to go after one guy then after a Chinese company

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Big whoop. He linked to ROM sites on his blog. You can still buy those consoles (and rom packs) from Amazon who’s actually profiting from all this

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  • [–] [S] 14 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    He was selling them outright via Facebook / Telegram. I’ll speculate a little bit - it’s likely it wasn’t taxed which is why he was singled out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    So more a tax issue / income gap rather than copyright infringement?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 1 year ago

    No idea but in Europe copyright law doesn’t seem to be enforced as much against little guys but taxman will come for everyone. That YouTuber seems to be a grifter, collecting money for his defense while also making money off a Telegram shop. He knew he could make things up and people (and „journalists”!) would fall for it because Nintendo bad.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    It sucks that they are being singled out but when you publicise links to copyrighted material you are asking for trouble.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    He did nothing wrong.

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