Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy
Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy
More than 47 million pirated copies of games including and Mario Bros. and Street Fighter II were seized in raids across Italy.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19757663
"retrogaming"
Ok at first I thought the title was about a fake prop from a video game which somehow was worth 50m
I hate headlines like these. It feels like they're intentionally ambiguous.
maybe ambiguos titles draw in more people if only to know what it means?
People will still buy these consoles and games. Nintendo won’t sell them. What’s the solution?
There are retro revival consoles that aren't deliberately made to looks like the original incarnations. I think the issue here was that the consoles being sold were deliberate counterfeits of otherwise valuable original retro machines.
For instance, litigious as they are Nintendo has either been unable or unwilling to snuff out things like the RetroN machines which play original Nintendo and SNES cartridges (and Genesis, and some others) but don't claim to be a Nintendo machine or look like one in any way.
That said, I personally would totally buy a fake OG JDM Super Famicom just to have on the shelf, or even a shell just that looks like one.
Nintendo doesn't have a legal right to go after NES clones in the States because the patent on the NES expired and anyone is legally allowed to make perfect duplicates of NES hardware.
The only legal ground Nintendo has is software copyright for games they published and / or licensed ( probably just published )
Piracy. Always has been.
Oh, the old every game is worth 50€ so a drive with 4.000 roms is ... 200 grands of course !
"Italian Retro Game Counterfitting Organization, Worth €50 Million, Dismantled"
Fascinating. Would have never guessed this was worth fifty million.
It's always Nintendo..