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Sculptasquad t1_j28vvbo wrote

...until these manufacturing methods become available to crimin-oops, they already are...

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OddCoping t1_j2b5nhg wrote

It's never about the technology being out there, it's about how expensive it is to reproduce verses what your trying to forge.

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Sculptasquad t1_j2cpxcr wrote

And the cost of the safeguard rarely exceeds the cost of the product. This is why it is always economically viable to counterfit things.

If the materials and the technology required to make a knock-off is cheaper than the production cost of the genuine article, there will be fakes made.

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