IMnobody
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I dont under stand why you want dream to say were they make there units , is this so clone dealers can turn round and say my product is real because it comes from the same factory as the real ones this is the only reson i can see alot of people looking this not to say dream caused it after all there only trying to make a receiver and get a good return
How can they block them importing units pmsl come on its china money talks just like most places
I think this is the hole point they used dreams bootloader not the eagle or any of the othere ones as they were all so useing the same one , dream took action that i have said was not fair on a lot of people to make a point now lets see the clone producers make there own bootloader to fix the prob then there will be no need to clone dreams stuff and if you dont want to use gemini then so be there is othere images out there to be used but im sure dream will try some thing again time will only tell
We can go on about this for days weeks months years but still get no were but we can say this up to now not one person has taken dream to court over this that i have seen so they must have some leg to stand on ,this only came about because of greed people looking to make money lots of money i should say out of some one's product that they have put alot of money in to
Knowing the country of origin and the manufacture, might point to where the clones are actually coming from. There something to this besides, greed when the clone units are selling at about 1/8th that of the original Dreambox units price, or, about 30% over the cost of actual production cost per unit. Seems Dream has quite a profit margin, here.
Greed to me would be steal the unit and change the name, like has been done so many times before. Then sell them at nearly the same price, not bargain basement give away as is the case with the 500's. Eagle's come in to fill that slot, in that manor now anyway. Speculating, it looks more like retaliation by the manufactures against Dream. Theft is theft, but, the way this is happening doesn't make much sense.
Well here our customs agency does a pretty good job of blocking Cuban cigars, conflict diamonds, and South African gold.They can't seem to stop the spam from Nigeria though.
The FCC sited Dreambox, they could cite the clone importers as well.
The cloners might eventually come up with a new bootloader. But, they're in the same position as Dream and their new bootloader. It's still up to the image writers to accept and use the relevant parts of it, in their images. In the mean time we consumers still sit in the middle, getting dumped on by all sides.
The fate of Gemini really doesn't bother me either, I'm using PLi as many others. Their self proclaimed 76% market share, more than likely has dropped off, or, they wouldn't be in such a hurry to push out v4.4. But at least they state it won't work on clones. Or, so they think.
I'm sure the boys that need their Gemini fix will find a way.
IMnobody