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Oracle hits UK reseller with lawsuit for allegedly reselling grey market Sun hardware

Alan Brown Silver badge

"How would it be if GM starts suing someone for selling a Chevy Camaro to Europe ?."

This more-or-less happened with secondhand Jeeps being sold into New Zealand - copyright claims were filed and thrown out.

In a similar vein, Australian Ford Falcons were rebranded when sold into the UK because Ford started making very loud noises at the importers (these were mostly turned into hearses)

It still happens with books - it's illegal to diirectly import and sell US market titles in Europe or AU/NZ thanks to copyright issues and Apple maintain an iron fist on distribution via copyright (to the point in the 1990s where it was cheaper to fly first class from Australia/NZ to Los Angeles, stay a week, buy a top end Mac system there, import it and pay all the applicable taxes bringing it home than buy one locally in Auckland/Sydney)

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