Yeah, it’s weird bcs as I understand that copyright law from 1941 it’s for the actual distribution, and if he never got paid by anyone in the distribution chain (tho as understand he did get some free consoles to review), then he wasn’t part of it - just filming himself saying what can be bought on the market.
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ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Shipping the handheld with a SD card loaded with pirated ROMs is asking for trouble, why target the youtuber though?
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The exact specifics change country by country, in Italy there are a lot of horseshit rules around it because one of the most powerful unions lobbies (our equivalent of the RIAA) for more exclusive control over media at every chance they get, to the point that you’re not allowed to distribute even your own media through physical sales without paying a cut.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I would have your mafia people (RIAA) meet their mafia people (Nintendo) & let them fight.
/s
MolochAlter@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Nintendo products have their union sale sticker on so I think they met and our guys won.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
a decent accountant could persuasively argue those free consoles were payment.
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Almost certainly there was some kind of pressure by somebody well connected on some higher up in the Italian Justice or Political Authorities of the
“Something Must Be Done!”
kind.
Followed by whomever was the last link in the shit chain coming from above, following the mental process of:
“This is Something we can do”
“We shall do This!”
It’s pretty standard in the stuff which isn’t their daily bread and butter that Justice Systems are driven by cronyism at the higher level and cover-my-ass at the lower level, especially in countries which have a culture of Cronyism.
Often this shit gets overturned when it gets to court or on at least appeal (generally the system gets less crooked as you go up, though I know of cases in other similar countries were only when it got the European Court Of Human Rights did the injustice go made right) and once the Press’ (and the higher up’s) attention has moved on, but that is a mentally and economically very costly fight for individuals to fight, which is why poor people almost invariably get shafted in such a system when they cross the wrong person or “don’t know their place”.
x00z@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
why target the youtuber though?
It’s the same taking the fight against drug dealers to the drug users. They don’t care about the lives they ruin as long as they can punish people.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?
ZeroHora@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
They made a example, and how that impact the sales of the handhelds? They’ll probably sell more now.
ViatorOmnium@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Alternativelly, some higher-up got pressure from some lobbyist or golf-buddy of some politician to “do something”, and some lower-down who got the hot potato covered their ass by finding something they could do, all of which quite independently of any strategical considerations.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nobody ever accused capitalist goons of being smart.