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Comment Misused trademark on custom-made disks (Score 1) 170

Say you were to sell a product, X. It's your product. It's good*, and you have an established client base. You distribute that product with a label, X. You have to control the distribution channels, so other actors do not take your product and modify it, potentially instaling backdoors. You do provide an image to download off your servers, complete with signatures, for free, to improve support for your customers. Someone takes your image, burns it to a disk, labels it as coming from you, and distributes it *to your customers!*. What's stopping that someone to modify the image, thus causing damage to the customers, which will identify it as coming from you. You will have to handle the fallout, spend time investigating the issue via your ticketing system, maybe send it to your forensics team to see if how if it was modified. You stand to lose customers and brand reputation by allowing unofficial distribution channels. What if that product was Kali, and someone would distribute it with the official logo to you, as coming from the team?

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