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| Subject: | Re: I agree |  |
| Date: | Dec 1, 2002 |
| From: | Rick Cooper | |
couple of points to bring up here. First, Trumpeter and their distributor are not fly-by-night operations (I'm making an assumption here and we all know where that often leads!) but legitimate businesses that manufacture, import, and distribute this stuff. Why, if it is a copyright violation, has nothing been done to stop them, here in the US? Tamiya has a fair sized operation herein a very high rent district, I assume (that word again!) they have a lawyer, at least on retainer, why have they done nothing? Clearly, it can't be legal to import bootleg material or we would have bootleg Porsches coming in on the next cargo ship. Second, if Tamiya, or any manufacturer sold the rights to Trumpeter to produce less expensive, sometimes even better, licensed copies would they tell us about it? I don't think it would be in their best interest to announce that someone else was going to make their kit cheaper than they did, kind of ruins their whole pricing strategy doesn't it?
So what's the bottom line here? I know I don't feel comfortable with the limited knowledge and complete lack of behind the scenes information that I have with passing judgment on any company......yet.
Rick Cooper |
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 | Theft? - Mark - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . I agree - Alex Johnson - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: I agree BUT - Mark Norman - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: I agree - Ken Hartlen - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: I agree - MSW - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: I agree - Rick Cooper - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: I agree - Lachlan Gilbert - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Not unusual - Peter Ong - Dec 2, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I can believe that - Alex Johnson - Dec 2, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Something fishy - Kurt Laughlin - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . Re: identity theft? - Christophe Jacquemont - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: identity theft? - Steve Frost - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: identity theft? - Paul A. Owen - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Theft? - c starling - Dec 1, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Theft? - Mark Rethoret - Dec 3, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Theft? - Richard Tellejohn - Dec 2, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Alterations - Julio Paz - Dec 3, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Alterations - Mark Rethoret - Dec 4, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hahaha - Julio Paz - Dec 4, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: hahaha - David Tong - Dec 4, 2002 |
| . . . International Plastics Conspiracy - Peter Gay - Dec 3, 2002 |
| . . . Re: Theft? - Dave Williams - Dec 8, 2002 |
| . . . . . . Re: Theft? - Saul Garcia - Dec 8, 2002 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Theft? - Fred A. Robinson - Dec 10, 2002 |
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