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Fake retro video game ring worth €50m smashed in Italy (www.bbc.com)
submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Here are the salient details, minus the fluff:

The haul had an estimated value of €47.5m, Mr Langella said, a figure which includes the value of the consoles and hundreds of licenses for the pirated programs.

They were "all from China" and were imported to be sold in specialised shops or online, Mr Langella said.

All the devices were fitted with non-certified batteries and electrical circuits and did not meet EU technical or safety standards. The seized games have been destroyed.

Nine Italian nationals have been arrested and charged with trading in counterfeited goods. If found guilty, they face up to eight years in prison.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Gee. The police are still protecting us by smashing fun things

Edit: Since I don't in any way routinely buy from these guys, there's no way I can possibly let y'all know later, when the supply is in no noticable way diminished by this.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

smashed

[–] Couldbealeotard 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These click bait titles are getting harder just to understand what they are trying to communicate.

[–] mephiska 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They seized a bunch of Linux devices with retroarch and roms that were probably actually worth a couple hundred thousand at market prices for these devices. You can get a handheld thing for under $40-50 on aliexpress and it comes filled with hundreds or thousands of roms and rom hacks.

[–] Couldbealeotard 1 points 3 months ago

Sounds absolutely smashing

[–] CluckN 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Slammed

[–] fubbernuckin 1 points 3 months ago

Dragged

[–] Rhynoplaz 6 points 3 months ago

So, I'm not sure where everyone else is, and maybe I'm in the wrong, but, Why?

Not meeting "safety standards"?

Did they leave out the epilepsy warning or something?

This doesn't feel like "keeping people safe" to me. Fuck the police.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's an expensive ring.

[–] Rhynoplaz 2 points 3 months ago

It was the one to rule them all.

[–] turbodrooler 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

50 micro-euros doesn’t seem like a lot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

It is when you think of the poor publishers losing revenue on titles they don't sell anymore.

5 cents (50 milli€uros) is jail-time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Did the cops raid a museum?
A library?
A conservation project?

/s