[Sébastien]

Diese mail hab ich heute von V-Cubes bekommen:

Dear friends,

We hope that you are all well and enjoying the holidays season that is approaching!

The reason of our e-mail is the terrible situation that we are facing with the Chinese thieves that are stealing our Intellectual Property.

You are all aware that in the last days clones of the V-CUBE 9 hit the market.
These people are doing everything that they can to steal the market from us and win money from our invention and achievements. Their goal is to throw us out of the market and close our company.

We have already proceed to serious legal actions against them, but the results won't come before 2-3 years, as the Chinese law is built in a way that actually protect the infringers.

We understand that you cannot prevent anyone from buying this cube. It is our job to block them through PayPal, e-bay, youtube etc. and we will do it.
We also understand that it is difficult and some times annoying to block discussions.

However, since our company is very new and is still trying very hard to survive and make some very important deals(that can be destroyed if the situation become out of control) we ask you to co-operate with us and help us whenever you can in this war. Imagine the web in three months full of videos, algs and discusiions about this cube...

We ask you to explain to the speedcubing community that it is not appropriate to help these thieves by advertizing their KO cubes and discussing in forums, or exchanging videos and techniques on how to solve this cube. At least not in public.
We ask from the speedcubing community to understand the situation that we are facing and make patience for 1 year, as this is the time that we need to develop the original V-CUBE 9.
It is very crucial for us that you will develop a KO policy throughout the community and not support these thieves on the known forums and also to the WCA events.

Everyone of you knows that although that our company is small and new, we are trying very hard to build a strong brandname and support the sport and the cubers in any way that we can.

We are asking you is to remove from the speedcubing forums every thread that has to do with the KO V9 and the links that are pointing to illegal webshops and also inform us if you found out places that are selling the KOs and not include the 9x9 events either on an unofficial either on an official scale. We ask you to open private discussions based on this e-mail with the cubers and try to persuade them to do the right thing.
This time the things are much more complicated than the KOs V5s, V6s and V7s because of the lack of the original.
We now have to prove to every legal commercial organization in the world that "we are not elephants" as a Greek slogan says. And we believe that with your support we have more chances to achieve that.

On our side we will continue to support the sport and work with the WCA whenever WCA wants it and we will continue
to try to keep everyone happy. We will start the molding for the V9 asap and we beleive that we will have it done by the end of 2010 or at least at the start of the 2011. Moreover as the V-CUBE and Verdes is a company that is based on innovation we assure you that in the next months we will release new concepts that will change the map of the cubing quite a lot and help the sport to become an OLYMPIC sport.

We are here to discuss further on this very sad for us matter either with the WCA board, either with the moderators of the speedcubing forums, either with any other cuber.

We trust that you will do the right thing

Kind Regards
Panagiotis and Konstantinos
www.v-cubes.com

Speedsolving.com hat schon darauf reagiert:

On behalf of speedsolving.com, we instituted a new policy on removing anything that is blatantly in violation of the law. This includes v-cube knockoffs that are in direct violation of US patent law. Hopefully this will help some.

-Dan

Wenn es nach mir geht gehört sowieso jeder Thread über sowas mit dem Kommentar "Diese Cubes sind illegal!" geschlossen. Was sagt ihr?