Talk about a rip
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- marcostill
Gestalten books Chinese knockoffs.
http://www.gestalten.com/news/de…
- Meeklo0
golden stamp foil!
- ukit0
That's just the tip of a very large iceberg.
- airey0
where would someone buy the ripp-offs from? if they, you know, were that kind of low life.
- Peter0
Hey, don't you go after my Paneraj watch & Lewis Jeans.
That'll harm my chances of scoring this weekend.
- utopian0
Do the Chinese every create anything that is original these days?
- they make pretty much everything and then copy it so yes and no.airey
- hmmmMachuse
- They should do like the Japanese: copy technology but slap on their own label.Peter
- Funny note on e-law in Japan:
it's legal to download movies, childporn and software from wherever. Just not legal to upload it.Peter - ...upload anything.Peter
- ismith0
I realize this example is fairly weak for a design (mostly visual) book, but lately I was thinking about piracy and how it relates to published (written) works instead of music, which is what much of our modern debate revolves around. 100 years ago if a noteworthy piece of literature was published in Russian only, how could all the curious British intellectuals read it, discuss it, etc without either the original publisher translating it or someone taking it upon themselves (crediting the original author of course)? Did they pay royalties to the original publisher? Was the original publisher involved at all with the translation? I remember the theme of most of my literature and history classes being that knowledge should always be free, and that buying things (books, etc) was 50% product (what you're paying for) and 50% content (what should be free). I know I should never post things like this while watching TV because I can't possibly concentrate, but wouldn't it suck if we didn't have War and Peace because the original publisher had a hissy fit about royalties? (though the English translation of War and Peace was done by people who knew Tolstoy personally, I don't know if they had any involvement in any future translations or publications)
- Invalid0
i just bought a pair of fake Onitska Tigers on ebay. I paid half the price and they're damn good quality!
never more will i pay double. NEVER!
viva la piracy!
... but if you try to steal my fonts, i'll knock your fucking lights out, ya hear!?
- mydo0
i've been buying rip off paper back books recently. looks like every page is photocopied. but the cover is real (ish). i feel kinda guilty. but they're only about $1.50. which is handy when i'm a habitual half book reader.
- who do you get them from? i didn;t know you could buy fake books.Invalid
- ukit0
Those Chinese have a pretty good gig going. They sell us debt so we can feed our egos, go to fancy art schools and become designers/models/musicians/film stars, then take what we make and sell it while giving us no royalties.
Chinese FTW
- well we all decided to save a few bucks and get it made in a place with no copyright laws.airey
- ********0
awful publisher -- imo the chinese looks better / is more interesting