Italy busts ring trafficking retro video games from China
Italy busts ring trafficking retro video games from China
Italy's financial police said Friday they have dismantled a ring trafficking counterfeit vintage video game consoles from China containing some of the most popular titles of the 1980s and 90s."These games featured well-known characters from the world of video games from the 1980s and 1990s, all prot...
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
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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.
10 grams of Mario would be worth 50k on the streets according to Cop Math™️
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.
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
Which is why Nintendo’s lawyers deserve
Hell, most lawyers in general, but especially IP lawyers.
Infinite crime.
I'm freebasing Mario Sunshine, fuck the police.
Going into a Fluddhole
But what about those Famicom cassettes on which it is written "9999999 games in 1!"?