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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: EEVblog on December 26, 2015, 01:55:50 pm
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Counterfeit copies of Art Of Electronics are on Amazon, with a mystery new author!
Got these images from Paul Horowitz
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At least with Amazon he, as the original author, can simply send them a DMCA takedown and the copies, along with the seller, will be removed from Amazon nealy immediately. As well any customers will receive notification that the orders are for counterfeit product as well.
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Any idea how that was made? Looks like the counterfeiters have a problem with the letters 'fi'.
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They scanned a genuine edition and their OCR program messed it up would be my guess... :palm:
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Any idea how that was made? Looks like the counterfeiters have a problem with the letters 'fi'.
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/the-art-of-electronics-3rd-edition/msg829114/#msg829114 (https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/the-art-of-electronics-3rd-edition/msg829114/#msg829114)
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Go China! :P They're a bit crazy to be selling on Amazon though.
Now we can tell who learned from that edition, since they'll be the ones talking about "lters"... :-DD
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So mill Amazong pill the pour qualitty coonterfiel buukc?
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Just think how much the reputation of Chinese goods could be raised if they all hired someone with an English degree (preferably native English speaker) to proofread their documentation and boxes.
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Just think how much the reputation of Chinese goods could be raised if they all hired someone with an English degree (preferably native English speaker) to proofread their documentation and boxes.
And menus...
I think they have cultural barrier to acknowledging that they are doing something badly and seem unwilling to ask for help.
A particularly good example is the Neoden4 video - they're trying to sell an expensive piece of kit to the EU and US market, have a very nice looking video, but then make themselves look a bunch of total amateurs with an appalling Chinglish script, and an even worse attempt at lip-syncing it.
I doubt it would have cost them more than the profit one one machine to hire someone to do it in English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7DDSTXIQo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P7DDSTXIQo)
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And when they use those awful fonts that are designed to be able to do Chinese and English characters.
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considering it is allready on a known naughty site, bit late :popcorn:
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Apparently their OCR can't handle typographic ligatures....
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Ligature_drawing.svg/149px-Ligature_drawing.svg.png)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature#Stylistic_ligatures
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Those freaking chinese... they'll copy and fake anything.
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Those freaking chinese... they'll copy and fake anything.
English book copying is mostly Indian (asia) forte, or Taiwanese Chinese forte This field is new to the Mainland Chinese. But there are quite a lot of book scanning machine made and sold by the Chinese. Some even made it to the kickstarter by some opportunists. Any clearer indication?
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Neoden4
i see they sell to iran. hopefully that doesn't wind up biting them in the ass. :-DD