It was reported that airport officials seized 7.6 tons of fake Pokemon cards as they passed through Shanghai’s Pudong Airport, surely a huge loss for unscrupulous individuals given how popular and valuable Pokemon cards are.
Customs officials seized 20 boxes of fake Pokemon cards that were being shipped by a company located in Qingdao, a major city in eastern Shandong Province. Yicai Global, a China state-affiliated media source, sent out a tweet announcing the massive haul, including details of where the fake cards were seized, and where they were heading, as well as video footage of the seized shipment:
Does it really matter whether or nor you use official cards? If the fakes are indistinguishable, who cares.
The license holders care.
The average joe?
Not so much…
It really depends on who you want making money: the japanese or chinese. If you’re not going to buy legitimate cards why buy fake cards from the chinks when you can just steal or print it yourself.
Imagine if kids had bought these. They could have been playing Pokemon for years without even realizing they were playing fake Pokemon. The horror. That was nearly catastrophic.
Instead, wild dad f♥♥k kasaix IFO them
Yesy yes wild dad f♥♥k winni puh bear 🐻
Serves those Chinese a-holes right. Pirating our stuff all the time.
“our”
has it ever occurred to you how much of a scam and a racket the copyright system is? The scumbags of the government take money from your pockets to enforce these laws to protect very large conglomerates “intellectual property” that more often than not DO NOT PAY TAXES THEMSELVES
Copyright, patents, and every other type of “intellectual property” infringes on and dilutes real property rights as they claim partial ownership over you and your real property.
imagine I had been granted a property right in my melody or poem such that I could prohibit you from copying it or demanding a royalty from you if you do. First: Doesn’t that imply, absurdly, that I, in turn, must pay royalties to the person (or his heirs) who invented whistling and writing, and further on to those, who invented sound-making and language, and so on? Second: In preventing you from or making you pay for whistling my melody or reciting my poem, I am actually made a (partial) owner of you: of your physical body, your vocal chords, your paper, your pencil, etc. because you did not use anything but your own property when you copied me. If you can no longer copy me, then, this means that I, the intellectual property owner, have expropriated you and your “real” property. Which shows: intellectual property rights and real property rights are incompatible, and the promotion of intellectual property must be seen as a most dangerous attack on the idea of “real” property (in scarce goods).
As Thomas Jefferson, himself an inventor and the United States’ first Patent Examiner, wrote, “He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.” For this reason, copyrightable works should not be viewed as property, and copyrights should not be granted.
To all the “support the creator” nutjobs – there would be nothing stopping the people that care so much about supporting creators from supporting creators without copyright or from companies giving a cut of the money to the creator, or are they implying that they would pirate instead of buy official products or go through official channels without copyright? Nothing wrong with that, just bringing it up. I want copyright abolished but I would still buy official books and physical copies of games, not because I give a s♥♥t about supporting creators, but because I like “official” physical copies, am willing to pay for them.
You are trying to dumb it down and using complete hyperboles without completely understanding what copyright is. If that’s your issue, take a whole course on copyright laws before you spout your nonsense.
Your example isn’t valid.
You cannot copyright useful things like clothes. But you can copyright the non-useful artistic design on the clothes. So they didn’t copyright cardboard playing cards, just the useless monster designs printed on the cards.
You’re just trash that want to freely use other people’s work without having to pay for it. Copywrite gets abused for sure but it also prevents little asshole weasels like you from destroying everything they touch.
Wow…counterfeiters are really upping their game. I can’t tell what the difference between a fake and a real one anymore. Things were simpler back in the day, when you could spot a fake a mile away with mismatched colors, rough edges, poorly printed graphics…etc. But I’m glad the were seized…because there’s a paper shortage and we could use the toilet paper.
It’s really easy for Magic The Gathering. Fake MTG cards are way higher quality than real ones.
Your bitch mom has been beaten to a pulp by wild dad and eaten by aussie dingos（
I’m just kind of curious how did they know they’re counterfeits?
Chinks enforcing intellectual property laws? What is the world coming to?