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Old June 16th 18, 01:09 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Doug Cimperman
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On 6/15/2018 11:54 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote:
AMuzi wrote:

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/indu...y#.WyPRf0q99PI


"The counterfeit helmets were found not to
contain roll cages or the internal
reinforcements that are standard in
high-end authentic Specialized and
Giro bicycle helmets. When placed on a head
form and dropped onto a testing surface at
approximately 11 miles per hour, the
counterfeit helmets broke into pieces
during impact testing, resulting in direct
contact between the head forms and the
testing surface," the U.S. Attorneys Office
said in a news release.

Wow, great job by the US officers!

What kind of sentence do you get for something
like that?

About tree fiddy.


And what is the Alibaba doing dealing with
knock offs? Shouldn't they be trialed as well or
is that impossible to do?


Probably not a lot--but then, many people don't understand how difficult
it can be to police Chinese industry.

I read an article once about counterfeit/knockoff iPods back when they
first came out. Most of the copies were coming from China, and
manufacturers in China tend not to be vertically integrated--that is,
they don't make the entire product. They just make one part, for someone
else who ordered it. So they often don't know exactly how it gets used
or where it ends up.

To make an iPod clone, there was five major 'parts' involved: the
plastic case, the LCD screen, the printed circuit boards, the
electronics assembly, and the packaging. One estimate was that there was
a total of 120,000 different companies in China capable of making at
least one of those parts.
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