The indian just good to make copy!

[frédéric Savard]

Hello to all,

You saw that Indian having copied the glidecam, copied the Eagle also, pieces by pieces.

The indian was just good for copy like chinesse

http://cgi.ebay.com/Magic-Arm-Vest-for-Flycam-Steadicam-Heavy-Prof-Cameras_W0QQitemZ330038510224QQihZ014QQcategoryZ3325QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Frédéric Savard

[Tom Wills]

I'm waiting to see them copy something they shouldn't and get a can of whoop-ass opened on 'em. I mean, sure, design similar products, but when you're copying it EXACTLY, down to the font on the graphics, that's going too far, eh?

[Joe Sanders]

I'm waiting to see them copy something they shouldn't and get a can of whoop-ass opened on 'em. I mean, sure, design similar products, but when you're copying it EXACTLY, down to the font on the graphics, that's going too far, eh?

Who is exactly, going to do the “wooping-ass”?

You know, I design houses for a living. (switched from the cabinet shop in the last few months, that's another story) anyway people try to pretend they came up with a great new design or whatever, but the truth is most all architecture is an off shoot from designers that lived thousands of years ago.

Just like the original inventers of the stabilizer copied mechanical systems that were invented as long as several hundred years earlier.

The only way to keep foreign companies from copying our designs (in any field) and selling them back to us for less than we can make them, is to impose import tariffs on their products.

You're up in arms about a really small thing, compared to software piracy and the upcoming Chinese auto industry, which buy the way is being funded by the American, European, and Japanese automakers.

These are really big issues; that threaten the very fabric of western society.  If you’re really upset about it find out what you can make some real changes.

As I said earlier the people in charge of the largest corporations and by proxy the government are pillaging the western middle class in a big way.

Your generation is going to have the hardest time, rebuilding the U.S from the legacy left to you by the age of the mega-corps.

[Phil Kindred]

Boy, Joe, is that the truth.  When I was growing up in the 50's, my dad would only buy American.  If he was alive today, he couldn't.  We used to be innovators--now we are international consumers of cheap crap!

[Tom Wills]

Who is exactly, going to do the “wooping-ass”?
...
Just like the original inventers of the stabilizer copied mechanical systems that were invented as long as several hundred years earlier.
...
You're up in arms about a really small thing, compared to software piracy and the upcoming Chinese auto industry, which buy the way is being funded by the American, European, and Japanese automakers.

These are really big issues; that threaten the very fabric of western society.  If you’re really upset about it find out what you can make some real changes.

As I said earlier the people in charge of the largest corporations and by proxy the government are pillaging the western middle class in a big way.

Your generation is going to have the hardest time, rebuilding the U.S from the legacy left to you by the age of the mega-corps.

I never said my nice little somewhat comical idea had to be realistic! Sure, it's true that there's a lot of sharing of ideas and designs in this industry. I just think it's bad karma to be completely reproducing somebody else's product exactly. It's not something that's completely bugging me, but the things you mentioned are. The kind of piracy that happens even here in the US is striking. And then, all the industries that are moving outside the US. It is a bit of a scary proposition to think that my generation may be the generation in which the US becomes solely a consumer.

[Phil Kindred]

As someone who works in a company that has over the years outsourced  most of it's products to overseas--reducing it's work for by 75%--I can pretty much assure you, Tom, you are the consumer generation not the producer.  The question  for corporations is how can you consume if your have no producing jobs.  Will everyone flip hamburgers?  Will everyone live one payday to the next?

[Michael Maier]

Yeah, those knock offs are all over the place and in different styles: http://cgi.ebay.com/Comfort-arm-and-vest-for-flycam-steadycam-Z1-PD150-FX1_W0QQitemZ160058444023QQihZ006QQcategoryZ15215QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I didn't even think they worked, but recently I read somebody on some forum saying he bought one and it works well with his 4000 and a XL2, go figure.
I'm using a 4000 myself right now and have been contemplating  getting a vest, but they are so expensive

[fred joswick]

Aloha,

I havent seen his "Magic Arm" listed for a long time.  I messaged him and he sent me a link to another listing by a different user ID which is fine just means he was working under a different ID's.

Frederick