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Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1k7387pmrpo

More than 47 million pirated copies of games including and Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II were seized in raids across Italy.

Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19757663

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8 comments

Moonrise2473

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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

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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

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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?