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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5243204" data-attributes="member: 19675">C&D letters ARE cheap.  Like I said, a warning shot, and just as you surmised, they may be a way for an IP holder to win even if they couldn't prevail in court.  If you don't have the $$$ for the fight, don't start it.As for the company being located in China?  China has gotten a LOT more diligent about enforcing copyright and other IP laws since the Chines pirates that have scourged other nation's IP holders have also started damaging the locals as well.In addition, if the USA is the primary market for their product, they really can't afford too much negative press or a big fight with one of the local favorites.Especially if they get the authorities in other countries to enforce their IP rights overseas.  If you can't sell in your primary market, your secondary market, your tertiary market, etc., because of copyright laws, it may not be possible for you to stay in business.Sure, you could TRY to stay in biz as a pirate, but lasers aren't quite as cheap to reproduce as, say, knockoff watches, toys or even other forms of IP (like movies or music).Besides, do YOU want to be the one that finds out that Lucasfilm's Security has actual WORKING Lightsabers?</blockquote>