Severed
Fractal Fanatic
in order for your analogy to actually hold up, said cover band would have to try to dupe people into buying tickets to see the real band, only to find out its a covers band at the show.No, two different statements in my post.
First one addresses the misused term "counterfeit".
Second implies that there are people out there that have developed a strong opinion against the purchasing of Chinese guitar knock-offs. But if they take a step back and look at themselves they may find that not only have they willingly purchased other knock-off products but they've maybe profited from other people's work. Example, the guitar player who denounces the purchase of a Chinese guitar knock-off yet that same guitar player has no problem making money in a bar playing other artists songs without an agreement in place or royalty payment.
I've yet to see a cover band advertise they were actually the real band..... this is exacrtly what these counterfeit guitars are doing, so really not the same thing at all as a cover band playing covers.