More than 47 million pirated copies of games including and Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II were seized in raids across Italy.
  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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

  • ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
    0·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
      0·
      2 months ago

      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

    • roboto@feddit.orgEnglish
      0·
      2 months ago

      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.itEnglish
        0·
        2 months ago

        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