800 preloaded games? The disregard for copyright is embarrassingly naive... usually the idea with selling something is to come out financially ahead in the end.
Yes, but please pay for my music ?
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Best Buy has been selling pirate retro consoles for months, with no action taken against them. https://m.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/300-in-1-portable-retro-m... And, of course, Amazon and Ali Baba have been selling them for ages.
My local mall had something similar for sale at a kiosk. I was shocked that nobody checks to see if what they're selling is legal. The mall is owned by Macerich a company that owns a ton of malls all over the place.
The kiosk is renting from the mall owner, the mall owner has no liability about what the kiosk owner sells.
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#23The Soulja watch is interesting to me. I see very similar ones coming from China, but it’s pretty amazing that at any hardware spec a “smart” watch could be sold as little as $10, let alone with profit. They’re shameless rips of Apple, but at $10 damn that’s crazy.
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#24The article handily links to the Alibaba store: https://www.aliexpress.com/store/3850034
I suspect what happened is that someone approached him with the idea of putting his brand on it, and he was flattered; otherwise it's basically the Amazon drop shipping business.
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#25Consoles with a bunch of preloaded pirated games were quite common in Eastern Europe back in the 90's.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
because the games are all from a few devs and they get a cut. This is too obvious to be this stupid. Take a look at this guy and ask yourself how hes been so successful. Hes crazy like a fox. But well see, maybe hes finally went crazy.
There's no way Nintendo would ever cut a deal.
Considering they already have their own Retro offering with presumably an insane markup i feel you're correct.
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#27I would sincerely love to know how he got this idea. I mean, he is a renowned musician. Why would he out of nowhere sell something that reeks of piracy and can get him into problems? I fail to understand.
Rap music has a strong history of building your brand then licensing products with your name/brand on them or even to the extent of Kanye where he actually designs his own fashion line/shoes.
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#28(You!)
Soulja Boy, I tell 'em
Hey, I got a new cheap emulator for you all called the SouljaGame
You!
You gotta steal intellectual property rights then crank back three times from left to right
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#29I would sincerely love to know how he got this idea. I mean, he is a renowned musician. Why would he out of nowhere sell something that reeks of piracy and can get him into problems? I fail to understand.
The product page website was originally a vehicle for a knock-off smartwatch. Clearly he's just shamelessly pitching a drop-shippable console with some branding on it. I doubt he had any influence on its creation, and will probably just plead ignorance if the lawyers come out.
I'm shocked by how few people realize the scheme he's running. Then again, it only involved a tiny bit less effort than 99% of other celebrity-endorsed products.
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#30I'm semi-famous. Does anyone want to buy a raspberry pi running RetroArch with my name written on it? /s