Re: Third Party and Knock Off Transformers News
Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2022 10:35 amWell I'M sorry that you continue to erroneously believe that laws that are strictly applied to very specific things like medication and replaceable parts by very specific government agencies are somehow universal and can be applied to everything you want to defend. Your own sources in no way explicitly state that 3P products are legal and instead uses meaningless phrases like "not necessarily" and one even states that they may, in fact, be illegal. Great defense there! And somehow I'm the one who's clouded. 
Hasbro has actively fought against 3P figures and KO. I haven't even mentioned the stuff they've done at Botcon, banning their sales in the dealers' room for years and nearly shutting down the artist alley over the sales of fanart in 2012. We've reported on Hasbro getting Chinese authorities to raid 3P and KO factories such as the Weijiang raid in 2020. There's also the report of Takara Tomy forcing a Japanese store to stop selling 3P products on copyright and trademark grounds.
Meanwhile you can't prove the rumor that Hasbro didn't mean to invite PVP to events and send him Lego Optimus Prime. The FACT is that Hasbro has the power to make PVP's life a living hell and they haven't. Contacting authorities over the purchase of stolen goods aside, Hasbro could very easily get YouTube to take down their channel if they wanted to. Don't think so? Mattel and/or Paramount this year got YouTube to take down channels of Jurassic Park toy reviewers for showing packaged figures THAT THEY LEGALLY BOUGHT FROM ONLINE RETAILERS ahead of the latest movie because of potential spoilers, the channel owners didn't get a warning or a chance to appeal they were just gone. All Hasbro has to do is have their legal team contact YouTube about PVP making money off videos featuring stole goods and nobody would ever hear from him again. THEY HAVEN'T. Hasbro doesn't care.
Your problems with PVP are based on a strictly moral gray area that the "victim" doesn't care about, while my issue with 3P is based on a complete and utter lack of proof of their legality and evidence that leans towards their illegality thanks to your own sources that are supposed to be defending them.
Emerje
Hasbro has actively fought against 3P figures and KO. I haven't even mentioned the stuff they've done at Botcon, banning their sales in the dealers' room for years and nearly shutting down the artist alley over the sales of fanart in 2012. We've reported on Hasbro getting Chinese authorities to raid 3P and KO factories such as the Weijiang raid in 2020. There's also the report of Takara Tomy forcing a Japanese store to stop selling 3P products on copyright and trademark grounds.
Meanwhile you can't prove the rumor that Hasbro didn't mean to invite PVP to events and send him Lego Optimus Prime. The FACT is that Hasbro has the power to make PVP's life a living hell and they haven't. Contacting authorities over the purchase of stolen goods aside, Hasbro could very easily get YouTube to take down their channel if they wanted to. Don't think so? Mattel and/or Paramount this year got YouTube to take down channels of Jurassic Park toy reviewers for showing packaged figures THAT THEY LEGALLY BOUGHT FROM ONLINE RETAILERS ahead of the latest movie because of potential spoilers, the channel owners didn't get a warning or a chance to appeal they were just gone. All Hasbro has to do is have their legal team contact YouTube about PVP making money off videos featuring stole goods and nobody would ever hear from him again. THEY HAVEN'T. Hasbro doesn't care.
Your problems with PVP are based on a strictly moral gray area that the "victim" doesn't care about, while my issue with 3P is based on a complete and utter lack of proof of their legality and evidence that leans towards their illegality thanks to your own sources that are supposed to be defending them.
Emerje
