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.
Man using a computer gets arrested for using a computer on YouTube. Amazon, seller of disgusting emulation game stealing piracy devices, is completely innocent.
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.
Almost like illegally obtaining evidence
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 legality of ANYTHING, is subject to local jurisdiction, in this case it will be in EU/Italy. Also, while emulators may not be illegal, copying ROMs that are copyrighted to Nintendo of whichever may be the company that published said ROM, are.
That is a lot of text for something that has no relevance in this case, since it is from Italy and not the US.
Different countries have different laws, and court cases in the US has no effect on Italian law.
Don’t the losers of the lawsuit pay all legal fees?
Not typically–which is a major driver of frivolous lawsuits.
This specific case is in Italy, though.
And it is not about the emulation by itself but that some of the consoles came with roms.
And I’m my moral code. Make the games available or stfu, we’re going to emulate it.
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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.
Never give them evidence against you. They should do the work themselves.
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.
The state taxed them so much, they are paying more for the second job that they are gaining, basically working for free
Perhaps I’m misreading, but I don’t think this is mathematically possible.
The amount of people who don’t understand how taxes work is just ridiculous.
Speaking from US perspective, our tax code is a few thousand pages. I don’t think it’s meant for most people to understand.
That said, yeah the effective tax rate being a larger percent of one’s income than the income from a second job is probably something that would be understood by most if stated differently.
Edit: i read some further responses and realized it’s a different situation than a simple effective tax rate issue. I also didn’t really understand the foreign and domestic tax issues at hand and resulting tax penalties though, so I’m in the ridiculous group.
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
This sounds like Germany. I think it’s the norm in many countries by now. We already entered late stage capitalism, at this point it will only become worse.
Up to 20k per year you pay 23%, from 20k to 32k you pay 25% and from 32k to 50k per year you pay 35% income tax. If my research is correct, the main job emplayer keeps the tax. So the second employer should keep those 23% as well. As long as your colleague earns less than 50k from both of his jobs, he only has to pay 12% of the second job‘s yearly income as taxes out of his own pocket.
So mathematically it should not be possible to pay to be able to work.
Unless he’s "self employed“ but then he’s allowed that employer to fist him lubeless.
It’s a bit of a complicated situation and I wouldn’t go into much detail, but basically, they live in Italy, but one of their job is (work from home) in another country. They are taxed by the other country, then taxed by Italy as well.
After that, Italy fined them on some bullshit grounds and forced them to pay a ridiculous sum of money. Needless to say, they never attempted to skirt or evade taxes or anything. They worked their ass off and the country said “fuck you in particular” because Italy.
I specifically remember them telling me that, despite being half Italian, they wanted to live in Italy because they love the country and have friends and family here, but now they don’t know what to do. It’s heartbreaking seeing how our country treats its citizens, then our politicians going on TV and lamenting the fact that young people choose to go live elsewhere. Italy as a country doesn’t see you as a citizen to protect, it just wants to squeeze you dry and leave you for dead.
So it’s not taxes, it’s some unspecified fines
They might Google some double taxation agreement between Italy and this other country. Usually, if there isn’t any, there should be a law to create a specific situation for them to avoid double taxation.
That really sucks, man. I fully empathize with getting fucked by a greedy government that protects the wealthy while abusing the working class. The world needs to unite against the elites destroying it.
That’s still not how progressive tax systems work. In your example, it’s the first 20k is taxed 23%, then the next 32k is taxed 25%, then the next 50k is taxed 35%.
So if you made 52k in a year, the first 20k yields 4.6k in taxes, then the remaining 32k yields 8k in taxes. Leading to a total of 12.6k in taxes, or an effective rate of ~24.2%
When the scores are settled sure, doesn’t mean there’s not mechanisms in any particular country that make this harder. Work two Jobs in the UK without carefully sorting PAYE and one of those will be collected at 40% emergency rates. You get it back eventually, but if you are paying transport, meals and other expenses to attend the second job I can see how it could get close to nothing. You get most of it back later, but that doesn’t help marginalized people trying to earn extra right now.
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?
Easier to stomp on one individual than to crack down on the businesses importing this stuff. They’re probably also collecting some kind of import duty on them too.
My guess is it’s because reviewing is advertisement, as he’s making money off the review if he monetized the video.
Fuck fascists. I can’t believe the literal Mussolini’s are making a comeback. Remember, the only good fascist is a dead fascist.
CIA killed all the leftists in Italy to keep Italy out of the USSR. Don’t forget that.
Common grandpa, take your pills now.
I mean. Are you trying to say that things that have been reported on and unclassified. Didn’t happen? Come on now young one.
No but that there are no leftists in Italy because of it. Or do you believe the CIA is killing all the leftist in Italy right now?
Source?
Reading through the article it appears that the group that carried out the most assassination was the Brigado Rosso, or Red Brigades. Interestingly, they also killed a prominent politician of the Christian Democrats, Aldo Moro, who was actively looking into working with the communist party, and his assassination killed his party’s plans to work with the Communist Party.
The CIA appears to have been involved only marginally, being mentioned only only at one point where fascists ask them if the USA would theoretically support a coup. (Technically they’re also mentioned in the list of parties involved in the conflict, as alleged supporters of the fascists). While this doesn’t prove that they weren’t involved, I did expect there to be more proven CIA meddling based on your earlier claims.
It appears that the CIA wasn’t to blame for the leftist’s. In fact, it seems like the Marxist-Leninist Red Brigades killed people until they had no allies left, thus being unable to sustain their campaign of assassinations. So, yeah, basically your source completely undermines your position.
I want you to know. That handlers might not pull the bullets. But they control the messaging from Langley. Just like Che’s death. It wasn’t an American killing them. But they were in the room when they were killed.
As opposed to a rare grandpa?
An S-tier grandpa
Didn’t Italy elect a far right neo-fascist government?
Hopefully gamers take notes.
Italy has always been a bit odd - I remember a group of scientists were convicted of manslaughter because they didn’t predict an earthquake that killed a few hundred people.
What about that American college girl whose roommate died and they accused her of murdering her in a satanic ritual which all turned out to be made up by the Italian prosecution?
Dude. That happened way back in …2009!
Whatthefuck is wrong with people? At least it got overturned.I remember that! But yeah, it didn’t make any sense back then either.
The USGS still claims, as it did in 2009, that earthquakes are unpredictable. At best they’ve been able to communicate when/where seismic events happen slightly faster than they propagate through the earth.
most of the time i get the “you’re having an earthquake” text a few seconds after the shaking stops, but a few times it’s come before it started so hey
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They did! I’m curious about the overlap between retro-gaming enthusiasts and fascists though. Do fascists really care about art and its preservation?
They’re notorious book burners, so I imagine not.
Fascists care about setting precedent and “purchased vaguely illegal content” is some great precedent.
This just also is a smart attack because the usual crowd is going to come out to insist that it is OWN’s fault for playing Nintendo games and piracy is the greatest problem facing the world and that Nintendo Switch Online™ is a great service.
Its the same as when the christofacists attacked Pornhub via Visa et al in the US. Everyone hates revenge porn and child porn (well, except for certain heads of state…) so nobody is going to complain but it made it very clear the path to destroy content that goes against the fascists’ interests.
the Italian Copyright Law. This law, which was originally written in 1941
Draconian copyright laws, government overreach, and fascism. Name a more iconic trio.
That’s really an unnecessary escalation
An unnecessary emulation too! Of fascists.
When I’m dictator, any country that does something like this will be carpet bombed.
I will vote for you!
so what was the best handheld
It all depends really, Steam Deck is the best all rounder but for specific niches (tiny and portable, retro form factor) there are better ones 😀
retroid pocket 5 is pretty sweet. I just wish it had handles for by big hands.
The one you’ll use, that’s fits your hand and playstyle. There is no “best”, they’re all pretty damn capable for retro gaming.
The one you’ll use, that’s fits your hand and playstyle.
It was right there in front of me all along…
Lol
“I play hard”
Master of my joystick.
Shipping the handheld with a SD card loaded with pirated ROMs is asking for trouble, why target the youtuber though?
Because the manufacturer and seller are in China and they want to make an example out of someone?
They made a example, and how that impact the sales of the handhelds? They’ll probably sell more now.
They are hoping people are going to be afraid of being caught with one. (yeah, idiots)
Alternativelly, some higher-up got pressure via some politician after talking to some lobbyist or golf-buddy, to “do something”, and some lower-down who got the hot potato covered their ass by finding something they could do, all of which quite independently of any strategical considerations.
If one doesn’t assume the Justice System aims be Just, a lot of things become easilly explained without the needed to find some kind of Master Strategy Beyond Our Comprehension to explain them.
Nobody ever accused capitalist goons of being smart.
why target the youtuber though?
It’s the same taking the fight against drug dealers to the drug users. They don’t care about the lives they ruin as long as they can punish people.
Almost certainly there was some kind of pressure by somebody well connected on some higher up in the Italian Justice or Political Authorities of the
“Something Must Be Done!”
kind.
Followed by whomever was the last link in the shit chain coming from above, following the mental process of:
“This is Something we can do”
“We shall do This!”
It’s pretty standard in the stuff which isn’t their daily bread and butter that Justice Systems are driven by cronyism at the higher level and cover-my-ass at the lower level, especially in countries which have a culture of Cronyism.
(People are people, and even in Justice Systems they’re no more impeccably honest and fair than elsewhere - in fact positions with power tend to attract people who are less honest and fair than average, IMHO).
Often this shit gets overturned when it gets to court or on at least appeal (generally the system gets less crooked as you go up, though I know of cases in other similar countries in Europe were only when it got the European Court Of Human Rights was the injustice corrected) and once the Press’ (and the higher up’s) attention has moved on, but that is a mentally and economically very costly fight for individuals to fight, which is why poor people almost invariably get shafted in such a system when they cross the wrong person or “don’t know their place”.
Yeah, it’s weird bcs as I understand that copyright law from 1941 is for the actual distribution, and if he never got paid by anyone in the distribution chain (tho as understand he did get some free consoles to review), then he wasn’t part of it - just filming himself saying what can be bought on the market.
The exact specifics change country by country, in Italy there are a lot of horseshit rules around it because one of the most powerful unions lobbies (our equivalent of the RIAA) for more exclusive control over media at every chance they get, to the point that you’re not allowed to distribute even your own media through physical sales without paying a cut.
I would have your mafia people (RIAA) meet their mafia people (Nintendo) & let them fight.
/s
Nintendo products have their union sale sticker on so I think they met and our guys won.
a decent accountant could persuasively argue those free consoles were payment.
