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Someone pointed this out in another thread, and I think it's worth repeating: dbrand has a history of doing this and has had the same thing happen before when they produced unlicensed faceplates for the PS5.
I feel like the thing with the PS5 faceplates was bs. They're just solid colour plastic. But the companion cube one I can understand, as that it was using the design of a "character"(?) that Valve owns without permission
I don't know a thing about IP laws, so I can't judge what shape of plastic is required to provide a basis for an IP rights violation. The reason I linked this was that I would take this entire story with a huge grain of salt, considering this company did this before and has apparently not learned all that much from that experience.
Yeah, I get that. I agree that dbrand seem quite sketchy with all that stuff you linked to. Especially the Twitter thing, that's just fucked up.
IIRC the original plates included trademarked logos belonging to Sony, and dbrand literally invited Sony to sue them in their marketing.
Holy shit that's an understatement!
I hope they really gave that guy $10,000
My guess would be that it also involved more than a little bit of alcohol.
Probably racism
Absolutely, but it still feels like there is booze involved.
Booze helps it slip out. At least in a there was no catch for this kind of racism.
The catch is like us learning our inherent biases and growing from it. I just don't have a better term for it
What you are describing requires a bit of introspection that many racists don't seem to be capable of.
Fair. So he's just a racist then
Seems likely.