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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by bdrool on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:28PM (#12746338)
Amazon is inching more and more towards a giant fraud operation every day. I'm glad this is getting more attention, however I fear it will continue unabated until someone is seriously injured or killed due to a dangerous knockoff causing a fire or other life-threatening hazard.

It's also rather unbelievable to me that big companies like Apple haven't come down on them like a ton of bricks for such large-scale facilitation of trademark violation. It's good that they are finally going after one of the individual vendors, but that's whack-a-mole at the end of the day. How big does the problem have to get before there is pushback against Amazon itself?

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by Florin_Andrei on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @02:38PM (#12746441)
> It's also rather unbelievable to me that big companies like Apple haven't come down on them like a ton of bricks for such large-scale facilitation of trademark violation.

Well, it would be like a ton of bricks coming down on another ton of bricks.

The outcome of such lawsuits depends in a fairly large degree on the size of the bank accounts that support the litigation. So they would be fighting an equal.

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Re:More than 90% of ‘genuine’ Apple chargers and cables sold... by paulddraper on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @04:20PM (#12747348)
> The outcome of such lawsuits depends in a fairly large degree on the size of the bank accounts that support the litigation.

So Oracle underpaid their lawyers?

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