Man using a computer gets arrested for using a computer on YouTube. Amazon, seller of disgusting emulation game stealing piracy devices, is completely innocent.

Nintendo really gets on my nerves. It's like they want folks to hate Nintendo. They could had gone after Amazon but instead chose to go after the little guy.

Emulators. Are. Legal.

This was settled with the Sony/Bleem debacle. Bleem only provided the software by which one could emulate PSX games but never the ISO files themselves. Those files could only be provided by the end user regardless of how they obtained them. Sony, of course, couldn't give less of a shit and sued them anyways. Judges, however, took Bleem's side on the basis that no copyright infringement had been committed on their behalf. Although Bleem would ultimately win ever lawsuit brought against them, the sheer size of the legal costs led to their closure which makes you wonder if that was Sony's endgame the whole time.

Here's a video by Nerrel about the legality of emulation. It's from 2020 but it is still relevant.

The creator, assuming he didn’t do anything wrong, complied with demands, providing full transcripts of his conversations and chats with gaming handheld manufacturers. The officers also took his phone, promising to return it in a few days. It was returned two months later, on June 15.

Oof. A reminder to not talk to cops, kids.

The officials have access to the devices, they consumed the illegal content and then documented their findings. This is considered a review and the officials should be charged under the copyright law.

Sounds like a massive overreaction and abuse of century-old laws.

If those devices are so bad, why not forbid selling them in Italy, instead of punishing people who buy them completely legally. Imagine going through all of this because you bought a laptop and posted a review online.

Italy is a joke. Our politicians call us lazy, the rich go on TV crying because they can't find people willing to work for minimal (or below) wage, and then a young person manages to carve themselves a path outside of the 'norm', our state immediately shows up and curb stomps them.

I was talking with a colleague of mine the other day. They work two jobs to make a living. The state taxed them so much, they are paying more for the second job that they are gaining, basically working for free. Tax the poor, let the rich off the hook.

Fuck Italy.

Retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd has been sued and raided by the Italian government.

That's insane. I know many of these handhelds come with pirated roms but taking it out on a youtube reviewer is outrageous. Why don't they just ban them from being shipped to italy?

Didn't Italy elect a far right neo-fascist government?

Hopefully gamers take notes.

Fuck fascists. I can’t believe the literal Mussolini’s are making a comeback. Remember, the only good fascist is a dead fascist.

That's really an unnecessary escalation

the Italian Copyright Law. This law, which was originally written in 1941

Draconian copyright laws, government overreach, and fascism. Name a more iconic trio.

Shipping the handheld with a SD card loaded with pirated ROMs is asking for trouble, why target the youtuber though?

When I’m dictator, any country that does something like this will be carpet bombed.

I'm surprised they've gotten away with shipping preloaded SD cards for so long. That was a risk waiting to blow up in someone's face, though it obviously isn't fair to be going after some guy rather than the distributors.

Remember when Retro Game Corps almost had his youtube channel shut down by Nintendo for showing Nintendo footage on these handhelds?

Yeah.....he's probably thinking to himself "Welp. Time to retire."

Seen this going around.

Is anyone familiar with the channel itself? Because based on the article, it sounds like mostly (presumably he) is getting made an example of for reviewing hardware that comes with ROMs on an SD Card? But... a LOT of these "retro consoles" do and outlets just ignore it in favor of their totally legit collection that they don't talk about.

Did OWN actually show what is on the SD Card and emphasize that these units came with it?