Oddbean new post about login | logout Bernarde now calling out Temu & Shein for "stealing a lot of money for businessholders" through "patent infringement." If he means design patents, I'd like to see pictures. This guy doesn't appear to be an attorney. I'm not sure he's qualified to evaluate infringement.
Bohi: "Funds from counterfeiting are used for terrorism."
Bohi: "Funds from counterfeiting are used for terrorism." Just throws that out there. No citations. No support. Side note: The alleged "evidence" for this kind of thing is....not compelling. See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4549909
This is so irresponsible.
Me in the chat rn: https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/171/667/909/146/410/original/31249710befb87de.jpg
And the first panel is done.
@e7f76f0d I’ve defended dozens (if not over 100 by now) of people sued for selling counterfeit branded products or pirated art products and every one was an individual that didn’t understand the law and was using the very small amount of funds earned to support their families in very poor communities.
@e7f76f0d Like the most common defendant I see is a young (18-25) person working in an Internet cafe in Vietnam or Thailand dropshipping products from Alibaba to Amazon to save money to help their parents and move to the city for a job. We try to help them find legitimate sources or local artists to steer clear of infringement going forward. But DEFINITELY not terrorism or organized crime
