speedmaster stuff pulled from Summit racing shelves

Newbomb Turk said
This just makes zero sense to me.

You are advocating is perfectly fine to steal intellectual property from someone, not pay them a red cent and then say its ok IF you do it right.

Thats BULLSHIT. It IS theft. Should you think I might be wrong, go out and COPY a book word for word and see how long you get away with that.

Or music. Copy someone's music and then publish it. You'll be in court so fast your shorts would have to catch up (not you specifically but you get what I'm saying).

The fact that some cases of theft of intellectual property are protected and prosecuted just means the courts don't give a crap about the automotive industry.

Theft is theft no matter what the courts do.

Books fall under copyright laws and so does music. It cannot be copied for obvious reasons as it help its creators control and receive payment for their works. If no copyright laws existed books and music would not exist in a commercial sense. You would write a book and no one would publish it as there would be no money in it, you would write a song and you could not make any money on it.

The courts do not give a crap about any industry. There are laws to protect you as an inventor you just have to use them. The courts will back you up IF you use the law.