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Soulja Boy is selling video game consoles again, and he's already being accused of ripping off an existing handheld: "He does not have permission to rebrand our products and sell them as his own" (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

China does not believe in intellectual property. If you manufacture your shit there (which everyone does) it's guaranteed to be ripped off and sold, minus your R&D costs. Look on AliExpress and you can find counterfeit...everything. Literally the same item sold for 90% less.

But you're also rolling the dice because honestly you never know what you're getting when you order shit there. Listings are full of fraudulent or just ignorant specs. Or they may just take your money and never send you anything at all.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It's not even necessarily counterfeit, like a fake product made to look like the original, but they'll run the same exact factory overtime to produce extra product beyond the contracted number, and that will be sold on the grey market. Or they'll take the QC failures, fix them enough for a B-grade product and sell that.