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Comment by dheera | Hacker News Reader

This is the kind of thing that really makes me want to have somebody please clone and sell them out of a country that doesn't really care about patent infringement. They can at least supply tapes until the big guys sort out their petty battle. They'll both be sorry for suing each other after this third party takes all their revenue for the time being.

Users shouldn't be the ones getting punished for this.

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> have somebody please clone and sell them out of a country that doesn't really care about patent infringement

How would one “sell out of a country” when it’s an import ban?

“By March 2019, US import bans of LTO products of both manufacturers were in place.”

It’s not obvious from that sentence whether the ban is on LTO-8 in general, or just from Sony and Fuji. It’s quite possible it’s only the latter.

From previous reading, both are banned, Fuji recently: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hit... (Although previously I remember it was Sony that declined to start up LTO-8 production, after getting their importation of similar BaFe LTO-7 tapes banned, maybe el Reg got which was which confused in the article.)

I don't know much about this topic, but if it was so easy to manufacture the cheap LTO tapes, there would be more than two manufacturers left in the industry and there definitely were non-Japanese companies.

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