Motolola and the Art of the Near-Miss Knockoff
A Motolola walkie-talkie on AliExpress — no "r" — opens a tour of the gray zone between inspiration and infringement. This episode maps the four-tier hierarchy of brand clones, from blatant familiarity plays to functional counterfeits that move through the same supply chain as the real thing. Along the way: why your brain fills in missing letters before you notice, how eBay sellers used the word "For" as a legal fig leaf, why eBay once sent cease-and-desist letters over domains that merely ended in "bay," and the Kickstarter precision optic whose counterfeit co-mingled units tanked its review…
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