Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ok at first I thought the title was about a fake prop from a video game which somehow was worth 50m

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  • ExFed@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I hate headlines like these. It feels like they’re intentionally ambiguous.

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    • Tangent5280@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      maybe ambiguos titles draw in more people if only to know what it means?

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• Escew@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  People will still buy these consoles and games. Nintendo won’t sell them. What’s the solution?

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

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    • SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      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 )

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Piracy. Always has been.

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which games aren’t they selling?

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    • Escew@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Apparently the ones being pirated in this ring. My point is people still want retro gaming consoles and games. If the IP holders aren’t selling them, what do they expect people to do?

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    • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I can’t get physical copies new of just about any game made before the late 00s.

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• Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, the old every game is worth 50€ so a drive with 4.000 roms is … 200 grands of course !

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• MiltownClowns@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Italian Retro Game Counterfitting Organization, Worth €50 Million, Dismantled”

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fascinating. Would have never guessed this was worth fifty million.

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