No more cheap Pateks...

[mutanthands]

Saw this over on Engadget, make me giggle;
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/24/s...h-face-piracy/

Luxury watch makers cracking down on bootleg digital faces.
Guess I'll just have to keep saving... :D

[Huertecilla]

Saw this over on Engadget, make me giggle;
http://www.engadget.com/2014/11/24/s...h-face-piracy/

Luxury watch makers cracking down on bootleg digital faces.
Guess I'll just have to keep saving... :D

All just window dressing to mullify the buyers.

Sitting at the beach front yesterday, well over two dozen 'ambulant sellers' passed within a hour and half of them sold quite convincing fakes of just about all Veblen brands.
Unless the luxury good investors bridge the wealth gap the aspirational fakes will be sold.
Since the gap is their existence it will pertain.

The best way to look at it is that being copied is the ultimate compliment.

What we as a society should NOT accept is that public money is spent on the widening/maintaning of the gap, of the Veblen thing.
When I see uniformed police molesting street sellers I speak up about this to them. I also write to town hall about that.
Imo the police has the priorities WAY wrong when they spend the very limited means on this sort of 'crime'.

[poppy]

The best way to look at it is that being copied is the ultimate compliment.

wow, that is quite something!

i think the ultimate compliment is to pay good money for the things.

[kevkojak]

When I see uniformed police molesting street sellers I speak up about this to them.

I know exactly what you mean. When I see drug dealers taken down I think "wow, come on, they are just trying to make a living"...

And car thieves. I mean, it's the ultimate automotive compliment when some scruffy scumbag wants to take your car at knifepoint.





As far as the thread topic goes, I actually don't see the harm in the digital knock-offs. A mate of mine has an app on his i-phone which does a similar thing, he changes his clock for a new Omega every few days.
Fake watches - no.
Digital images of well known watches - sure, why not.
tches

[waynertron]

"The companies aren't speaking on the record, but this is more about legal obligation than attempting to protect sales -- if they don't crack down on bootleg digital faces, they'll have a harder time taking action against real-world counterfeits."

Absolute nonsense.

[NJHawkins]

"The companies aren't speaking on the record, but this is more about legal obligation than attempting to protect sales -- if they don't crack down on bootleg digital faces, they'll have a harder time taking action against real-world counterfeits."

Absolute nonsense.

US intellectual property law is a bit odd, my understanding is that you basically have to stamp on ANY possible infringement or risk setting a precedent that a forger could exploit.