Originally Posted by
San Pedro
If you're wearing an advertisement, then the company your advertising for should be happy, especially if it doesn't even make clothes or anything cycling related.
One of the reasons knockoffs exist is because pricing is inflated. In a free market knockoffs serve as a way to rein in prices.
In the free market knockoffs are theft and the reason they exist is because of thieves. Those who do it need to go to prison.
You can design and produce your own Lexus IS300 but in so doing you are stealing from Lexus. You can photocopy a book I've written and sell it online but in so doing you are stealing from me. And you can create a jersey with a copyrighted design on it but you have stolen the design from its owner. The cost of the original doesn't justify stealing.
You can support such activities but in so doing you are supporting criminals, many of whom do far worse things than counterfeiting and patent theft. If you knowingly buy a counterfeit then you are a thief.
-Tim-