Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy (www.bbc.com)
from mox@lemmy.sdf.org to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 06:18
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/22361846

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JudahBenHur@lemm.ee on 15 Sep 09:52 next collapse

smashed

Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 10:32 next collapse

These click bait titles are getting harder just to understand what they are trying to communicate.

mephiska@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 14:28 collapse

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.

Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 19:52 collapse

Sounds absolutely smashing

CluckN@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 13:04 collapse

Slammed

fubbernuckin@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:07 collapse

Dragged

thisnameisnottolong@aussie.zone on 15 Sep 12:46 next collapse

That’s an expensive ring.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:39 collapse

It was the one to rule them all.

xyzzy@lemm.ee on 15 Sep 13:21 next collapse

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.

Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 15:43 next collapse

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.

MajorHavoc@programming.dev on 15 Sep 16:33 next collapse

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.

turbodrooler@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 16:39 next collapse

50 micro-euros doesn’t seem like a lot.

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 16 Sep 15:16 collapse

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

5 cents (50 milliuros) is jail-time.

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee on 16 Sep 15:11 collapse

Did the cops raid a museum?
A library?
A conservation project?

/s