Here's why that embattled retro gaming YouTuber might not be so innocent (Updated)
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It turns out retro gaming YouTuber Once Were Nerd may have played a little to fast and loose with ROM sharing.
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He did nothing wrong.

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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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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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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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ahh, missed that. That makes more sense

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So more a tax issue / income gap rather than copyright infringement?

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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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