US government told to flag retro handhelds loaded with pirated games as a ‘notorious market’https://archive.ph/8TItt>The ESA says thousand-game handhelds are the industry’s version of ‘superfakes’>US video game trade group the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) has asked the US government to flag retro handheld devices containing pre-installed games as a “notorious market”.>The Notorious Markets List is an annual report published by the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) which identifies online and physical marketplaces that are accused of engaging in or enabling piracy and counterfeiting.>Every year, organizations are invited to nominate the websites and services they see as major threats for potential inclusion on the Notorious Markets List.>At the time of writing, the USTR has received around 30 responses – some of these are from organizations submitting their nominations for the list, while others are from companies already on the list, putting forth their case to be taken off it.>One of the documents is from the ESA, which has submitted its nominations. At the top of its list are “plug and play” emulation handhelds, which often come with many thousands of retro games pre-installed.>“In the video game sector, illicit plug-and-play consoles and handheld devices are the functional equivalent of superfakes,” the ESA’s report says, equating them with counterfeit luxury goods such as handbags, clothing and watches.>“They can look and feel like legitimate, mass-market consumer electronics – molded housings, color displays, polished user interfaces, retail packaging, product reviews, warranty-like representations, and listings on familiar e-commerce platforms.
>>749744579>“Yet their commercial appeal rests solely on a concealed memory card or internal drive loaded with hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of unauthorized copies of copyright-protected games. Some products also use protected game titles, screenshots, characters, logos, or other source-identifying material in listings, packaging, interfaces, or promotional content without authorization.>“The result is not merely a low-quality electric device sold from the margins of commerce. It is a turnkey piracy product that presents visually and commercially to consumers as legitimate devices.”>The ESA goes on to explain that these devices make it easy for the general public (who may not know how emulation works) to access pirated ROMs while also removing their need to buy legitimate retro products, partly because they’re presented in a way that makes them look like an authentic, legal product.>“The high degree of apparent legitimacy magnifies the economic harm,” the ESA says. “A single device can substitute for lawful purchases across multiple video game publishers and console generations, divert sales from authorized games, compilations, subscriptions, remasters, and licensed retro hardware.>“Because the product is often delivered with an immediately usable catalogue of pirated games, it removes the technical friction that once separated mainstream consumers from video game piracy. Sellers commonly use the illicit library as a key selling point, and the commercial price often reflects this.”
>>749744616>The ESA has asked the USTR to urge governments and market operators to take the following seven steps regarding these devices: >“Treat preloaded unauthorized game libraries as core evidence of commercial-scale piracy” >“Inspect bundled and separately shipped storage media” >“Require sellers to substantiate authorization for included games and protected branding” “Suspend repeat sellers and linked storefronts, not merely individual listings” >“Preserve seller, payment, shipment, and advertising records for enforcement” > “Improve customs targeting for devices and components associated with preloading operations” >“Coordinate action against manufacturers, exporters, importers, fulfillment providers, and online marketplaces that knowingly facilitate these products”>The organization also specifically nominates retro handheld manufacturer Anbernic as a “Notorious Online Market”, noting that its devices “are routinely offered or shipped with removable memory cards preloaded with hundreds or thousands of unauthorized copies of copyright-protected video games published by ESA members”.>“The harm extends beyond substitution for authorized game sales,” it says. “Anbernic normalizes hardware-based piracy by delivering illicit catalogues through a polished consumer product, meeting the definition of a superfake as defined above. By marketing the devices through ordinary retail channels, the operation also shifts monitoring, investigation, notice, and remediation costs to publishers and marketplaces.”>>Elsewhere in its report, the ESA nominates several other potential Notorious Online Markets for inclusion in the USTR’s annual report. These include “cracked game sources, repackers and linking sites”, “torrent and piracy co-ordination markets”, “unauthorized digital goods marketplaces” and “commercial cheat markets”.
when are you guys going to out the commies and corpos?
>>749744679>>749744616>>749744579>The report concludes by asking the USTR to include these examples in its 2026 Notorious Markets List and “encourage the relevant governments, market operators, hosting and infrastructure providers, registrars, payment services, advertising services, e-commerce platforms, and other intermediaries to take sustained and effective action”.>This could include “investigation and prosecution of commercial-scale operators; preservation and production of ownership, transaction, advertising, and shipment records; suspension of repeat sellers and linked accounts; termination of revenue and infrastructure services consistent with applicable law; customs targeting and inspection of preloaded devices and storage media; and prompt, transparent, and durable responses to right-holder notices”.
>>749744579>Yet their commercial appeal rests solely on a concealed memory card or internal drive loaded with hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of unauthorized copies of copyright-protected games. Chinkhelds are still legal then as long as they're not sold with preloaded games. So this is a nothing burger.
But this doesn't stop other hardware like PCs, PS4s and Xboxs to have emulators on them so what the hell are they going to do about that?
>>749744579>Pirates lose againTale as old as time
>>749744858>>749744794No, they don't.
>>749744579The more the burgers isolate themselves from the entire world, the deeper they sink into their own shit. Lmao.
OH SAY CAN YOU SEEE
>>749745002It would be a winning strategy if they had manufacturing still but like everyone else they rely on asia (china).
>>749745116Hence why they sink deeper
is this the chink thread? how are chink phones these days I need a new phone but I'm sick of Samsung and their bullshit and maybe chink stuff is okay these days but I don't know where to look for info
>>749744857the issue is the roms
>>749745170but they're still big and do damage to others trying stay on top
OH SAY CAN YOU SHART, AT YOUR LOCAL WALMARTWHAT SO PROUDLY REMAINS, OF MY BOWELS IS NOW SEEPINGDOWN MY PANTS ON THE AISLE, THAT MY BROTHER DEFILEDO'ER THE BORDERS WE GLIDE, WITH OUR TONNE-POUND FAT HIDEAND THE VAXXIES RED STARE, AIRPLANES BURSTING IN AIRIT'S PROOF AND DELIGHT, OF OUR BEAUTY SO FAIROH SAY DOES THAT SHART-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVEO'ER THE TARIFFS OF THE FREE, AND THE TOMB OF THE SLAVE
>>749744579Yet I can get emulators on google play, just make the software something you can download once your purchase is done and pop it on a SD card. There's your work around too yet another "boomers think they save the world with this shit" law.
>>749745206>don't need to format the included SD card anymoreoh no
>>749744579land of the free status?
>>749745308Kek'd amerigoylems BTFO
>>749745497Land of the greed, home of the slave.never been more actual
>>749745227Which further pushes others away from them and further towards any other trading partner. Also with the dollar on free fall due to the petroshekel getting fucked and all the bullshit from the orange, countries are ditching the dollar and being pushed towards anyone else.It's like a nigger drowning, it will splash, scream and try to push anything or anyone down just to get a single mouthful of air. It only makes others stay the fuck away from it while it fucking drown.
>>749745497Revoked over 10 years ago
land of the free. home of the brave
>>749744579I was wondering how they got away with handing out so many roms for so long, I won't lie I found some really fun games through them.
>>749744579classic. when corpo jews wont (not cant) provide competitive product, they cry muh pirates
You're supposed to wipe whatever bullshit stock OS is on there anyway and load your own games.
Good, more for us rest of the world
>nooo, they are selling abandonware that none of these companies sell anymore!!>think of the scalpers !Abolish IP law.
>>749745586>the dollar in free fall Nobody even has to read the rest of your rant
>>749745604>>749745556Elon and Trump have been working to keep your rights but you fags keep getting in their way
>>749745497Dealing with tards like >>749746150
>>749745586you've been saying this exact thing for 30 years and the US has only widened its lead
>>749744579Good. No more house fires. Next ban e-bikes and VPNs.
Meh, chinkhelds are shit anyway. A real high-IQ individual builds his own retro handheld to his personal specs. Chinkhelds just use existing emulators anyway. I'm honestly surprised it's taken this long to target the chinkheld market, they're pretty blatant infringement when they come with roms.
>>749744579>“They can look and feel like legitimate, mass-market consumer electronics – molded housings, color displays, polished user interfaces, retail packaging, product reviews, warranty-like representations, and listings on familiar e-commerce platforms.Yeah because they are legitimate products lol, how dumb are these guys
Government aint gonna do shit or care kekGet fucked esa die a slow death garbage gaymes industry
>US video game (((trade group)))
This isnt news. Plugin consoles and handhelds with preloaded games have been a thing since foreverOnly now they act? Useless twats
okay I guess the chinks will have to start shipping without pirated games then and let people load them on their own. seems fine by me. a curated list of games you're actually interested in will feel better than seeing 10000 copies of garbage.
>>749747180Fair point. I do not want to see duplicate entries for various cracked versions or alternate language ROMs, unless I explicitly want that
>>749744679>>The organization also specifically nominates retro handheld manufacturer Anbernic as a “Notorious Online Market”, noting that its devices “are routinely offered or shipped with removable memory cards preloaded with hundreds or thousands of unauthorized copies of copyright-protected video games published by ESA members”.?? anbernic themselves don't sell sd cards full of roms right?
>>749744579If you cant pirate your own games you dont deserve to play them. Its not hard to load roms on these android or Linux handhelds
>>749744579This is good. Fuck china. And fuck literally everyone one of you who gave them money for your shitty "Ayn Thors".
>>749747381they used to but got spooked after the ESA complaint and removed the option from their store.
>>7497445793DS and PS vitas are no longer manufactured not my fault
>>749747180were they actually loading roms onto these things? are they stupid? I could understand the 10000 in one shitty chinkhelds but the stuff i've been seeing recently like the ayn thor arent being preloaded with this shit right?
>>749747541stay seething
>>749744858>>Pirates lose againthey don't you worthless retarded subhuman
>Something to be banned>Amerigolems be like: Good, fuck em, it's nothingburger, no big deal, we wasn't using it anywayKek, land of the freeeee strikes again
You voted for this!
>>749748328good thing trump will get raped in a few weeks
>>74974457999% of these are dogshit, total utter bottom barrel dogshit, that are a waste of Grandma's (your mom's) $30 for that quirky fun little time she wanted to have with the grandkids and you. They are so bad low quality chink dogshit that anyone playing them without even knowing anything about older consoles and games will only come away with "Wow people back then played this? Everyone's an idiot"inb4>lmao where are you kids this is 4chanNot. The. Point.Nobody is going to ban a Retroid or other quality emulation handhelds/TV plugins, they're going to ban market spammed $20 XICHMLU brand "500 classic games!" that come with awful emulators, awful weird chinkshit ROMs, and just don't fucking work.the only people who would be against this shit in the street
None of those big name chinkheld companies load them with roms. Another added to the /v/ nothingburger list.
>Umm I own the original game so it's ok>Don't actually own it>Thinking it would somehow be legal to sell pirated softwareBiggest retard award
Still waiting for my Retroid Duo.Gonna play nintendo AND sony gaems on it ;^)
>>749744579>Make money off of piracy >Pirate gets butt fuckedWoooooooowwww
>>749748431Netanyahu and Putin have already guaranteed a total republican victory for the midterms. Sorry, hun! Maybe if Libbies donated more money to Mossad, then maybe they would've had a chance.
>>749744579Good. Only gaming devices from the honorable and honest company like Nintendo is allowed in the Land of the USA
>>749744579>>749744616>>749744679This is WAY TOO MANY words to just say:>"yo dont pack it with roms"Because if they don't pack it with roms, then what leg do you have to stand on? Fucking nothing. Fuck off ESA.
>>749744616>while also removing their need to buy legitimate retro productsBut I do buy that. I just bought a CIB NES Castlevania 3, and bought the "Classic" mini systems. We aren't stupid and can tell that they're different things. Unless they're talking about the selling of roms, I will never pay for that
Is it so hard to download a fucking 8 GB rom collection after you buy one?
>>749748920Uhhh lotsa words = smarts
This will crack all the stupid kids that have no idea how to download or get roms. The actual manchildren that aren't retarded won't give a fuck. >>749748887cute bait
>>749749001back in the day jokes just used to be recognized and called jokesnow everything is BAITFuck you
>>749748968wow...2 whole ps2 games!
>>749748771netanyahu is accused of being pro-palestine in his own cunt and pootin is dying of strokes, it's over for trumpster
>>749744579Weak minded communist country, not much of a surprise.
>>749749038Tendie buttblasted, now that's the real joke.>heh. if i subtly joke about nintendo being basd, they will agree with me. and think tendies are the good guys because they make funny jokes.No.
>>749744857I got a letter in the past from my isp telling me to stop or lose service. It'll happen to you too.
>>749744579Well it was always a bad idea to advertise your handheld as having fucking pokemon or something, I'm amazed they've gotten away with it so long. Any legitimate product doesn't rely on copyrighted advertising to sell it and assumes it's market base is smart enough to find the games on their own. The only thing this would hurt is third worlders and low IQ cretins.
>>749744579lol. I mean I don't disagree but it's the same reason why anyone buys PC handhelds. They just buy them so they can pirate shit
>>749749261>America land of the jooo slavery, i mean free
>>749744579They'll just sell the chinkhelds without an sd card and tell the buyers to install the stuff on their own.
>>749744579Voted for this award.
>>749749345There is no point then.
people actually keep the shitty roms and systems bundled with these? you're meant to download proper full sets from rutracker
>>749749431You are going to replace the SD card regardless. I had the stupid idea to try and keep some files off one and my read speeds were like 2MB/s lol
>>749749261NordVPNbros...
>>749749070these things can play PS2 games?
>>749749863The point of these devices is they already come bundled with tons of games and there is no need to go through the trouble and risk losing your internet service downloading roms.
Ah, so basically I need to start hoarding. Okay. I have the money for that.
Is there a 3DS chinkheld?
>>749750017yeah, a few. all these companies fab out of shenzhen so do your research.
>>749750017Haven't seen one with proper 3d support but dual screens are a thing.
>>749749912Is Nord shit now? I haven't been following the latest fake vs real VPN news.
>>749744579It's so fucking hilarious watching the land of the free become more regulated than bong land.God save the queen, I mean the pedophile president.
>>749744579>don't add roms to your chinkheld>crisis advertedthat easy
>>749750059>do your research.Honestly I was hoping you'd just tell me the name of one.>>749750143Yeah I don't mind not having 3D support but it'd be nice to have the entire 3DS catalog in one device, since I never had one. I could also just play on my couch but I do like the handheld form factor for gaming away from home.
>>749750310America has been a satanic slave colony for a long time it's just becoming more apparent to the average sheep now.
>>749748887Bait
>>749750310You mean trump sending all the money to Israel didn't give you a clue? lol, lmao.
>>749750363>romless I thought they all come romless? Wasn’t this the literal reason that idiot Souljaboy got his line of chinkhelds pulled from the market within 2 seconds?
>>749750478The fat woman being punched in the face by grown men for wearing an anti pedophile shirt woke a bunch of people up.
>>749744579Cool>continues to emulate on my phone.
Vitachads are eating good.
>>749750502only the really cheap shit comes with a billion nes games
>>749750502No lol some come with an SD card full of roms, I got a r36s for 40$ on a summer sale, it helps pass the time before work and not much else.
>>749750602>VitachadsGood handheld ruined by company tech locks just to evade the pirates.
>>749744579Why is the ESA a bunch of butthurt niggas? Why can't they just chill in a oven or something
>>749750310
>>749749953Motherfucker, are you actually stupid enough to be paying for roms??? Don't want to lose your internet? Just fucking go to McDonals then and use their internet
>>749747969Are we pretending like they care? Nuking all chinkhelds to ever exist would be a huge win for them, the piracy is just a pretense.
>>749751016I'm not stupid, which is why I wouldn't do that.
>>749744579just source your own roms
>preloadedThat's the key word here retards. Stop being lazy and pirate the games on your chinkhelds yourselves.
>>749750502I bough RG35XX H from ali a year ago and SD card was full of ROMs.
>>749744794Same shit goes for germany, you could get legal trouble when you import "9000 games in 1" handhelds, but without the SD card, no worries.
>>749751361Mutts are cucked and they fear being rekt for pirating roms. So if you don't add roms, then nobody cares. And that makes me laugh.
>>749745497Property rights are compatible with freedom
>>749746008>$1 = $1Thanks for the insight, genius
>>749750693No limits fun once you hack it to accept micro SD cards.
>>749751554Until the government wants your land for a data center and consider 1/10 of the house value - court fees "fair compensation".
>>749751462I've sold hacked Wii's on Craigslist. If I write "doesn't come preloaded with games *wink*" it doesn't sell. If I write "comes preloaded with games" it'll sell, but fags will report the listing to try and get it taken down
cool. I don't remember asking, though.
>>749746150If they couldn't manage with majority control of the legislature and supreme court, they clearly can't cut it.
A.I. Can't bankrupt console companies soon enough
>>749744857But Anon......Those are small companies, without it they gonna go bankrupt.
>>749744579I mean it's already like that, that's why they don't come with games when you buy them on Amazon, they only include the games if you buy them straight from China.Besides, anyone with an IQ above 60 would've already been tossing the SD cards they come with, as they're 100% always guaranteed shit.TL;DR: nothing changes.
>''free'' ''country'' with a ''free'' market
Chinkheld shills in shambles, just look at this thread.
>>749744579The US taking Ls again
>>749746150judiasm is not american rights
>>749752664Everything for Israel and the god chosen pedophiles.
>>749746008Remind us when donal was elecmated
Uh oohhh, massive clitty leakage in this thread!
>>749752937>but trump is the good guy, /pol/sisters...
>>749752937>>749753119Our leaders *should* make money, it's only right, they're our betters afterall
