He can be arrested for anything. If you want to argue that, you’ll have to take it up with the author.
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grue@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoHe couldn’t have been arrested for copyright infringement; that offense was perpetrated by the entity that sold the thing to him, not himself.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
No, copyright infringement is a criminal offence in this case - there won’t be any Nintendo/Sony lawyers in any part of the investigation or trial.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That is literally the charge/what they are investigating.
Afaik the difference will come down to if he was ever paid for a review (which would be the difference between a regular consumer buying a thing legally & showing what he bought vs him being part of the promo campaigns by the manufacturer … you know, like Google is).
And if there is no newer specific law (the old one ofc doesn’t explain shit since it’s from pre-computer era), it might come down to him receiving free consoles to review, and maybe having a bunch of SD cards full of ROMs in his apartment.