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Fake and counterfeit chips & products are scourge of our industry. Their shady manufacturers put the customers at risk and put the original manufacturers in an
by mritun 4y ago
Fake and counterfeit chips & products are scourge of our industry. Their shady manufacturers put the customers at risk and put the original manufacturers in an impossible position. I don’t envy the position Prolific is in. Whatever we can do to put the fakers out of business is good!
- josephcsible 4y ago> Whatever we can do to put the fakers out of business is good! Not if it means hurting innocent third parties, who didn't know the chips were fake and now they're all in the field and not working.
- manicdee 4y ago“Innocent” third parties who scored a great deal on discount “Prol1fic” chips on AliBaba? Provenance is an important part of logistics which you lose as soon as you source parts from third party sites like Amazon, eBay, AliBaba and so forth.
- josephcsible 4y agoThis change isn't punishing the people who scored a great deal on discount “Prol1fic” chips on AliBaba. It's punishing the people whose supplier's supplier's supplier did so.
- xeyownt 4y agoI suggest displaying a banner saying "DO NOT USE CLONE!" every time you use the device. This worked very well for DVDs...
- muro 4y agoYou don't get on the original, only on clones - I think that's a win.