• grue@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    3 months ago

    He couldn’t have been arrested for copyright infringement; that offense was perpetrated by the entity that sold the thing to him, not himself.

    • Ulrich@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      He can be arrested for anything. If you want to argue that it wasn’t copyright infringement, you’ll have to take it up with the author. That’s what they said.

      • Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        3 months ago

        No, copyright infringement is a criminal offence in this case* - there won’t be any Nintendo/Sony lawyers in any part of the investigation or trial. They might have just reported a crime.

        Nobody is getting sued by Nintendo (like would be the usual business in USA).

        *it has it’s own jail sentence & a 15k€ fine, tho again not clear if per case or whatever bcs the law infrastructure just isn’t up to date (never was?)

        (Afaik)