Regarding "Knock off Alert"

[Gollnick]

if someone is making money copying a maker, then that maker has obviously done an excellent job in designing a knife

and should be the one making the money.

The guy making money off of the copy is stealing from the maker who did the excellent job in designing the knife.

If you can't see that, then you are morally bankrupt.

 

[Benjamin Liu]

Not only good designs are copied for knockoffs. I've seen knockoffs of other companies POS knives as well as knock offs of other knock offs.

The worse ones, though, are the ones that try to pose as the originals. One site was selling knock offs of several popular knives and kept the names of the knives the copied.

 

[Elvislives]

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If you can't see that, then you are morally bankrupt. [/QUOTE]

Someone who purchases knockoffs because of the knife they imitate is an accessory to theft. But "morally bankrupt" is stretching it a bit.