[RANT]False Beeprog. AGAIN.

[Chuck Guzis]

On 06/23/2015 02:50 PM, TeoZ wrote:
> Its one thing to copy a design and stick your own name on it, another to
> clone something and stick the legit company name and logo on it. Why
> can't they brick a fake if they want to (after all it is the end user
> trying to load copyrighted firmware on a fake product not the company
> seeking out to brick any old copy)? If I sent a shipload of fake Gucci
> bags to California the local port authorities would just grab them and
> burn them.

Oh, I agree--and there are procedures to get USCBP to do just that:

http://www.cbp.gov/trade/priority-issues/ipr

But it's awkward to get it done--and costly.  Basically, we're awash in 
counterfeit goods.

--Chuck