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Absolutely. I personally put the blame on the laws calling "intellectual property" a name and a drawing. Just to start with, I find it an offense to the word "intellectual". Take a homage watch, everything is identical to the original, dimensions, shapes, colors, materials, etc. They can't say anything. Now you add the name and it's a counterfeit. It doesn't make sense to me. It shouldn't exist. If you want something genuinely made by someone, just buy from them. If a manufacturer wants to make sure to their customers which items have been made by them, keep the owners registered with a blockchain or whatever. If fakes are "lower quality", as they almost always argue, people should notice reps are worse, so if you want quality buy from gen makers, what actually happens is that reps (top ones at least) have almost the same quality (in terms of appearance, finish and movement reliability) than gens for a fraction of the cost, and I think that is what really annoys them: people realizing that something that is 95% of a rolex costs 5% of a rolex.
Absolutely. I personally put the blame on the laws calling "intellectual property" a name and a drawing. Just to start with, I find it an offense to the word "intellectual". Take a homage watch, everything is identical to the original, dimensions, shapes, colors, materials, etc. They can't say anything. Now you add the name and it's a counterfeit. It doesn't make sense to me. It shouldn't exist. If you want something genuinely made by someone, just buy from them. If a manufacturer wants to make sure to their customers which items have been made by them, keep the owners registered with a blockchain or whatever. If fakes are "lower quality", as they almost always argue, people should notice reps are worse, so if you want quality buy from gen makers, what actually happens is that reps (top ones at least) have almost the same quality (in terms of appearance, finish and movement reliability) than gens for a fraction of the cost, and I think that is what really annoys them: people realizing that something that is 95% of a rolex costs 5% of a rolex.
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