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Comment by kristofferR | Hacker News Reader

This is seriously the type of language that will get men to want to "abuse" the Velcro trademark more.

https://torrentfreak.com/iptv-anti-piracy-threats-may-increa...

Unlikely. The Velcro trademark has been so far gone for decades that I doubt there is a single person on the planet that knows it's the name of a company and not a generic term for hook and loop fastener.

The next company you'll see in this position is probably Google. I think that verb will outlive Google Search.

More importantly, knowing and caring are two different things.

I know that Velcro/Kleenex/Google are specific brands, but I don't really care - the common usage is so far gone that there's rarely a reason to use hook & loop fastener/tissue paper/internet search instead.

Hell, for some people, "iPad" is a semi-generic term for a tablet. (Though I don't get that one, personally.)

> Hell, for some people, "iPad" is a semi-generic term for a tablet. (Though I don't get that one, personally.)

I remember when the NFL first started using Microsoft Surface tablets during the broadcast, except the commentators would keep referring to them as iPads. By the next week's broadcast, every single commentator had a giant "Microsoft Surface" branded tablet cover in front of them at the desk and overall the logos were plastered everywhere.

> I doubt there is a single person on the planet that knows ...

Are we not persons on the planet?

Speak for yourself, human.

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