Here's why that embattled retro gaming YouTuber might not be so innocent
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It still makes no sense at all. Those handhelds are openly sold at Amazon, even from European warehouses. If you want to prevent the selling of ROMs, you have to tackle this problem and not some random YouTuber who maybe linked to a few Romsites or sold some via Telegram.
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It sucks that they are being singled out but when you publicise links to copyrighted material you are asking for trouble.
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It still makes no sense at all. Those handhelds are openly sold at Amazon, even from European warehouses. If you want to prevent the selling of ROMs, you have to tackle this problem and not some random YouTuber who maybe linked to a few Romsites or sold some via Telegram.
Easier to go after one guy then after a Chinese company
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Big whoop. He linked to ROM sites on his blog. You can still buy those consoles (and rom packs) from Amazon who’s actually profiting from all this
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Big whoop. He linked to ROM sites on his blog. You can still buy those consoles (and rom packs) from Amazon who’s actually profiting from all this
wrote last edited by [email protected]He was selling them outright via Facebook / Telegram. I’ll speculate a little bit - it’s likely it wasn’t taxed which is why he was singled out.
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Easier to go after one guy then after a Chinese company
Amazon is not a Chinese company.
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He was selling them outright via Facebook / Telegram. I’ll speculate a little bit - it’s likely it wasn’t taxed which is why he was singled out.
ahh, missed that. That makes more sense
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Amazon is not a Chinese company.
Oh I assumed you wanted them to go after the manufacturers as they are the root of this practice. But I'd assume they'd rather go after any Chinese company then try and go after the moloch that is Amazon.
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The real question, is who the hell buys roms?
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He was selling them outright via Facebook / Telegram. I’ll speculate a little bit - it’s likely it wasn’t taxed which is why he was singled out.
So more a tax issue / income gap rather than copyright infringement?
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So more a tax issue / income gap rather than copyright infringement?
No idea but in Europe copyright law doesn’t seem to be enforced as much against little guys but taxman will come for everyone. That YouTuber seems to be a grifter, collecting money for his defense while also making money off a Telegram shop. He knew he could make things up and people (and „journalists”!) would fall for it because Nintendo bad.
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He did nothing wrong.
