Faking a Company

gambit3 writes "What happens when pirating a movie, an application, or a game is not enough for you? Well, you take the next step and pirate a whole company. It happened to Japanese electronics giant NEC. Counterfeiters had set up what amounted to a parallel NEC brand with links to a network of more than 50 electronics factories in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan."

Wow, that is so cool

[Oldsmobile]

All I can say is, wow, that is incredibly cool! What moxy! What an idea!

These guys should get a criminal Nobel or something!

Imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery

[Mostly a lurker]

... so why does NEC seem so upset?

Re:Piracy means what again?

[jozi]

The misuse of the word piracy gives all us true pirates a bad name. Piracy doesn't even have to take place on the high seas anymore. Damn all sweet water pirates to hell!

Will the real slim shady please stand up?

[Thecarpe]

Hi, Bill Gates here. I'd like you to visit my new site:

http://www.m1cr0s0ft.com/ [m1cr0s0ft.com]

Suddenly it all makes sense!!!

[soren42]

This is exactly what Microsoft did to IBM's PC software division in the 80's!

I always knew there was *something* underhanded there, but couldn't put my finger on it.... ^_^ Contract, schwantract.... No company, not even IBM, could have been that stupid. It was all just "Corporation Piracy".

It all makes sense... DOS, CP/M, and, of course, once MS had made enough money from the theft they started taking less and less of IBM's assest - with the last partial theft in the Windows 95 + OS/2 Warp releases... from there, Microsoft could just keep heaping "original" code onto the DOS codebase it secreted away.

Ahhh, all is right in the world when everything finally falls into place!

(Disclaimer: This is a joke. Sarcasm. Humor, people. We all know the real facts..... or do we???)

That's a co-incidence

[mustafap]

I've been faking being an employee for years :o)

Already done here in the US...

[dietrollemdefender]

That would make the Canada's equivalent of the Fortune 500 at least. After a year, having achieved our goal, the stock would become worthless.

It was already done, here, in the US: it was called "Enron".

I don't trust the article...

[Anonymous Coward]

How do we know the reporters were getting comments from the real NEC executives?

Now that's an idea...

[Arcturax]

So there is a use for the MikeRoweSoft name after all!

Re:The IHT Goole AD says it all

[digitaldc]

Product Sourcing Buy Risk Free From China IVELL - Global product sourcing

Buy Risk Free From China? IVELL certainly NOT!

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[brunes69]

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Pfft. I know a genuine Panaphonics when I see it..

[narkotix]

And look, there's Magnetbox and Sorny.

That's nothing,...

[Yewbert]

...there's a place near here that's doing the same thing with a whole industry/product line - couterfeit food. Luckily, they're easy to spot, all being labelled with a big bright yellow M,...

Re:That's a co-incidence

[chainy]

Wally?

Re:MP3 Players, too

[StupidStan]

the joke will be on him. I owned one of those, one of the poorest designs/interfaces I have ever seen.

Fake

[ZenKen]

It's ok. We have fake CEOs, and CEO/CFOs who make fake profits.

Faking a company?

[TheWizardTim]

That's nothing, right now we have a dictator faking a democracy in the US. Beat that pirates!

Next step in preventing piracy

[Intron]

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If only

[soft_guy]

If only you could get someone to pirate just the technical support part of your company!