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Originally Posted by craigcliff1
Ant Adams talked about how he noticed and been told that LICENSORS had it with all this.
he stated people are arrested
I remember what 07-08 I noticed MYC statues and thought, they allow this
I 'D think don't order
also stated they are arresting buyers
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A little sensationalistic, me thinks...
Listen for yourself here:
https://youtu.be/m-NPs3lSWPA?t=7306
"Heard of one factory getting completely shut down, by the government, and all the product destroyed. Uh, and people arrested. Uh, and I've also heard from other licensors that they're now getting more, er, cause at this point it's now starting to take money out of licensors pockets, right, uh so they're now putting the money into legals to start going after factories, makers, uh, they
technically can now also go after people that buy, uh, because it's similar to buying a pirated movie. Right? That's illegal. Uh, to own it. Uh so, the crackdown on that side's coming..."
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Originally Posted by haljordan99
A quick Google search turned up this:
"The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that federal law doesn't prohibit shoppers from purchasing counterfeit products for personal use, even if they know they're fake."
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Piracy and counterfeiting are different. Piracy involves distributing without copyright owners permission. Counterfeiting involves distributing fake goods. The consumer is 'off the hook' for fake goods, likely because that involves motive, which would be a waste of government resources to prove.
Regardless, this is all much ado about nothing. Even if it's technically illegal, in the same way pirated movies are, the government will
not be coming after Joe Six Pack.
I don't believe that Ant was saying that anyway. He's just saying that a crackdown IS coming, which will likely lead to some prolific unlicensed factories getting shut down, because they're now getting large enough to affect licensors wallets. It's a standard market correction. Similar thing happened with XMs unlicensed sales territory.
There will probably be a dip in unlicensed Dragonball product. We'll all survive...
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