More than 47 million pirated copies of games including and Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II were seized in raids across Italy.
    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
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      3 months ago

      It is when you think of the poor publishers losing revenue on titles they don’t sell anymore.

      5 cents (50 milli**€**uros) is jail-time.

  • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Gee. The police are still protecting us by smashing fun things

    Edit: Since I don’t in any way routinely buy from these guys, there’s no way I can possibly let y’all know later, when the supply is in no noticable way diminished by this.

  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    So, I’m not sure where everyone else is, and maybe I’m in the wrong, but, Why?

    Not meeting “safety standards”?

    Did they leave out the epilepsy warning or something?

    This doesn’t feel like “keeping people safe” to me. Fuck the police.

  • xyzzy@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Here are the salient details, minus the fluff:

    The haul had an estimated value of €47.5m, Mr Langella said, a figure which includes the value of the consoles and hundreds of licenses for the pirated programs.

    They were “all from China” and were imported to be sold in specialised shops or online, Mr Langella said.

    All the devices were fitted with non-certified batteries and electrical circuits and did not meet EU technical or safety standards. The seized games have been destroyed.

    Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods. If found guilty, they face up to eight years in prison.

      • mephiska@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 months ago

        They seized a bunch of Linux devices with retroarch and roms that were probably actually worth a couple hundred thousand at market prices for these devices. You can get a handheld thing for under $40-50 on aliexpress and it comes filled with hundreds or thousands of roms and rom hacks.