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1mo ago

Here's why that embattled retro gaming YouTuber might not be so innocent

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Here's why that embattled retro gaming YouTuber might not be so innocent (Updated)

Archive: https://archive.ph/2025.07.22-214505/https://www.androidauthority.com/once-were-nerd-youtuber-not-innocent-3579610/

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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
  
  Amazon is not a Chinese company.
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
- 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
  
  So more a tax issue / income gap rather than copyright infringement?
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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