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Information Technology News Symantec wins big against counterfeiters, but what about 'hearts and minds'? | Symantec wins big against counterfeiters, but what about 'hearts and minds'? |
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| by Stephen Withers | |
| Thursday, 20 December 2007 | |
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"Our customers are the real winners as a result of this case," said Scott Minden, director of Symantec's legal department. That seems self-serving. Even if we assume that everyone buying an illegitimate copy would otherwise have licensed the genuine article, do we really think that the increased sales revenue would feed back into lower prices, better support or more development? It seems to me there are two kinds of counterfeit goods, but I'm not sure this applies to software as it does to watches and handbags, for example. There are the 'fakes', sold at prices so low that nobody really thinks they are getting the real thing. With physical goods, the difference in quality is usually apparent, although apparently some factories are known to run off a quantity of fakes using exactly the same materials and processes they used for the genuine items they produced for the brandholder. Then there are what I think of as 'real counterfeits', which are passed off as the genuine article at full or close to full prices. |
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