Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Gravitas Plus | Dear China, stop COPYING!" video.

  1. Its actually less than that. The idea of copyright or intellectual property just DOESN'T exist in Chinese culture. I'm Australian and we have already had huge issues with Chinese grifters. The worst trouble we have in recent years is that as soon as any new company in Australia registers a logo or brand name then its copied by Chinese grifters and registered in China. They then try and extort the Australian company to get their logo back. Its a problem because Australian food products are popular in China. Sorry for the longish answers but here's the 2 best Chinese copycat stories I know of: 1) The guys who copied LG, which I heard about at an engineering conference. They didn't copy any particular LG product. They copied LGs paperwork and systems. They designed a bunch of products, subcontracted the manufacturing out and then sold stuff branded as LG and sold through parts of SE Asia. The paper work was so good that the manufacturing subcontractors and retailers all through they were actually dealing with a division of LG. It was only found out when a real LG person saw some odd products in among the standard LG merch somewhere. 2) And this is an engineering thing, which I heard from my boss one day. In the oil & gas industry a lot of valves get used and they can get very expensive. One of the main American manufacturers (who my boss had worked for) told me how they suddenly started getting warranty claims on some flow control vales. These were from a range of very expensive very high quality valves meant to last in the field for years and every valve is individually serial numbered. When they checked those serial numbers against sales records none of them were where they were supposed to be. As in they weren't even in the right country let alone the right oil rig or refinery. When they checked back through their records a Chinese company had bought 1 of each size valve in that product line. Nobody thought anything about it at that time, because its not unusual for end users to buy like that for spares or by a set to test in their facilities. As a result of those valves and some other things there are companies operating in Australia's oil & gas industries that will not allow Chinese ANYTHING in their plant's. In those cases these days we have to submit copies of quotes (with some redactions) to prove our tenders aren't planning to use Chinese materials. If you then win the tender you have to provide receipts for those materials when you deliver the project.
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