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> I mean, what's FTDI supposed to do? I’m not saying that FTDI or a similar company should sit idly by, but the vigilante justice you’re advocating leads to ba

• robomartin 6y ago
  > We have customs enforcement to stop goods at the border and a court system to deal with internal disputes It's a joke, right? This system has allowed everything from fake hats to fake, well, everything, to come into the country undeterred. Amazon and eBay are full of the stuff. It's so brazen that they are not shipping fakes directly into the US through highly subsidized door-to-door shipping using the US Postal Service. And you want them to police an obscure little chip out of millions that come through the gates? My friend, our system is powerless against the onslaught...and they know it. Sure, a few things get nabbed here and there. This is a rounding error at the scale and breath of what's going on.