Originally Posted by
Stu @ M Developments
As long as you and we are sure that you aren't infringing anyones copyright
Well as per your post in the other thread about tuners selling modified ford chips on here, you can be certain of no copyright infringement by the absense of any court cases for copyright infringement.
and are not blatantly selling direct copies of another companies chips and they complain about it then I don't see a problem. (So your EDS example is a bad one and hopefully not your only one)
What difference does it make if its a byte for byte copy or is a slightly modified one, without a court case proving that its illegal surely its none of PF's business the exact contents of the chip itself, they dont minutely inspect every other product sold on here, so why would they with chips? And even if they did, why would it be a problem if it was the same as some other chip on the market anyway? Without a court case surely thats irrelevant as per your other post about aftermarket tuners taking copies of ford/vauxhall data in the first place?
Originally Posted by
Stu @ M Developments
The customers can make the decision as to whether or not they want to buy a brand name with technical backup, or want to buy a no name copy where the seller has no knowledge of the internal calibration. No different to eBay i guess and an idiot and his money are easily parted.
Dealers for companies like evolution chips provide good first line support with no knowledge of the specific of the internal calibration, so this level of support could be offered.
What couldnt be offered I guess is that if a question does require such intimiate knowledge or minor modification, evolution chips dealers have that 2nd line of support also available, chip copiers do not.
So its a case of "less" support, not none.
Using myself as an example, I have setup many cars on chips bought from other people (some genuine and some copied im sure, as ive never been involved in the sale of chips I dont have a definitive answer to that) and the owners of the cars in question have always been very positive with their feedback.
Sounds a crap way to make a living though, just ripping off other peoples work and not actually recalibrating anything at all, but but hey theres plenty of so called chip suppliers all other the world doing just that sadly.
50 quid for a 2 quid chip and 5 mins to copy it, and then following it up with some technical support, doesnt sound too bad a living to me TBH, but then I quite enjoy helping people out for free, so earning a few quid doing so certainly sounds appealing to me, although I already have a job so wont be doing so myself at this point in time.