Profile for bad_nobe - rip off products

bad_nobe aka nino benito is a boy, has been a member since August 20, 2005, has scored 25548 submissions, giving an average score of 2.76.

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Jul 12 '06 by bad_nobe

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and these two subs were copied .i just saw them last night in one shop here in china. i was really surprised.maybe threadless can not do something about it.since china's the no.1 for rip offs. fake abercrombie and hollister is everywhere here.nothing's been changed with all the designs.there are 2 more design subs, but i just couldn't remember the title. too bad, i was not able to take photos.

Nice Swimshorts, Jimmy - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

Tasteless Totem - Threadless, Best T-shirts Ever

5115 on Jul 12 '06 at 8:17pm

What an honor! I'd love to have my unprinted sub ripped off!!!

MrDomino on Jul 12 '06 at 8:28pm

I hear Threadless' China branch has a crack team of Lo Mein powered robots. Gears are turning as we type.

steve_swartz on Jul 12 '06 at 8:33pm

serves them right for not printing stingerstyler's sub -- I really love those two.

Rachel Raygun on Jul 12 '06 at 8:43pm

wtf? mine never even got printed and they're copying it?

i'd love to see the rip.....

Kojima on Jul 13 '06 at 12:05am

You can't stop China from doing anything. I was there for a summer once. I got food poisoning every single day.

steve_swartz on Jul 13 '06 at 12:10am

there's more of them than there are of us.

ask spires about "property rights" in this context ;)

Shix on Jul 13 '06 at 12:18am

hey nobe, where in china are you??

RaOsiris on Jul 13 '06 at 1:07am

I saw more people wearing Threadless in Singapore as well...
However, the colour of some of the Tees are actually different.
I think there's some ripping off here too...

pyr0maniac on Jul 13 '06 at 1:09am

lol, stingerstyler should be proud that his work is being ripped off half way around the globe. that sucks. i really want nice swimshorts, jimmy. maybe i'll go to china to get one. :p

stingerstyler on Jul 13 '06 at 11:32am

oh my fucking god!!!? steve just pointed me towards this blog but WHAT THE FUCK!?!?

I mean it's an honour in some way that they feel this can make them money, but give me my damn share of it. FUCK!!!

Sorry about the swearing but what the hell!!

midgetbigot on Jul 13 '06 at 11:33am

Hmm maybe we can make a shirt that says in chinese "Steal this shirt"

Manos on Jul 13 '06 at 11:35am

this is a shame.

tesco on Jul 13 '06 at 11:37am

I see just as many at London markets

realslimnatey on Jul 13 '06 at 11:41am

it really does suck that there are rip offs and all but they do the same with handbags and such, you really cant help it!

sucks though, sorry guys

stingerstyler on Jul 13 '06 at 11:58am

yeah I know, and I've seen shit like this before but I feel fucked over

realslimnatey on Jul 13 '06 at 12:00pm

i totally would too! i went to thailand last year and saw sooo many rip off designs! the sucky part is that people would buy tons of them and bring them back to their home country to sell for more profit!

GAHHHH! its irritating!

stingerstyler on Jul 13 '06 at 12:20pm

yeah, plus that there is a person somewhere who calls himself a "designer" who is copying other people's work. while he knows it as well. the bastard!

disillusioned on Jul 13 '06 at 1:44pm

This is why there should be a somewhat complex watermarking system developed that allows people to see an image without allowing it to just be pilfered, though that wouldn't stop them from simply redesigning it. Sigh.

benny breaks on Jul 13 '06 at 2:06pm

prove it

Rock Deputy on Jul 13 '06 at 5:34pm

HEY! that's my shirt!

OlliRudi on Jul 13 '06 at 5:36pm

steal some shirts and ship 'em off to the designers. china owes 'em

OlliRudi on Jul 13 '06 at 5:37pm

(i bet the chinese ripoffs doesn't even have flared sleeves...:)

sonjordan on Jul 13 '06 at 5:39pm

so even designs not printed aren't safe?

(takes a minute to check for double negatives in above sentence.....okay)

Wow.....that sucks. I was recently looking at a myspace shop of rip-offs from "Thai designers" that I'm sure is well known around here.

sonjordan on Jul 13 '06 at 5:40pm

Graphic playground....that's it.

yeohgh on Jul 13 '06 at 9:57pm

There are few rip off shirt in Bangkok market which my friends and I found few months ago..hahhaha

stingerstyler on Jul 14 '06 at 3:35am

Holy shit they even have the guts to create a myspace account and post "their designs" there... assuming that these ppl are the same as the graphic playground fuckers.

(see my blog for the links to those accounts)

bad_nobe on Jul 14 '06 at 3:45am

this is fujian province.im still new here.i came here 3 months ago.there are a lot of rip offs here.my officemate told me that there is this one good shop.and i checked it out.and what did i see?rock deputy's rachel's and stingers designs.i ll try to get some pics for that.
back in the phils, i havent seen any.but one time i saw this actor and he is wearing GO JAPAN.i think he ordered it thru the net.because it's in the color like what is sold here.

Aj07 on Jul 14 '06 at 8:19am

Woah that really is bad news, not only that my friend and i are starting up our own business and were just afarid to send to print them on shirts from all the rip offs we find these days *sighs*

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stingerstyler on Jul 18 '06 at 2:44am

any pictures yet?

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ecky_ducky on Dec 04 '06 at 1:22am

I went to Homebake in Sydney, and a stall was selling a whole heap of Graphic Playground rip offs, of mp(3), Dark Side of the Garden, Damn Scientists, For the Birds, We're Toast, and a whole heap of others. I'll post pics. I'm angry.

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szajmon on Mar 31 '07 at 6:42am

i found fake threadless t-shirts with this graphic playground label in szeged, hungary.. made in thailand, eh.

esthergrondahl on Mar 31 '07 at 6:48am

There's got to be some legal protection against this. A simple copyright is not good enough. Is there an international copyright?

I know that international law is a tricky subject when dealing with music and royalties. it's probably just as tricky when dealing with art.

OlliRudi on Mar 31 '07 at 10:17am

a lot of eastern countries have a very relaxed stance on international copyright law. i actually find it quite refreshing as a counterbalance to the current overzealous nazi stance on copyrights in america. i understand why people would get pissed that their stuff is pirated, but at the same time i know i'd get a kick out of seeing something i designed being bootlegged in the streets of thailand.

leaded on Mar 31 '07 at 10:38am

on a quick survey i see that the people who think this is a cool thing or an honour of some kind happen to be people who have never put the time and effort into producing something to sub themselves.

OlliRudi on Mar 31 '07 at 2:06pm

dude, i've subbed over 50 designs

leaded on Mar 31 '07 at 2:31pm

guess i should have said "most' of the people. good luck with your next commision negotiation olli.

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stillfallingforyou on May 21 '07 at 6:39am

hi! about two months ago i buy two shirts one was Love Me Hairdo by Jonas Verheijden and the other was Glueniverse by Mauro Gatti the shirts have a bit different things like the draw from the beatles print on front centered on a white shirt not in a corner of the shirt, and glueniverse printed on a black t-shirt and more bigger than the original art posted here... i think i was buying original threadless shirts in fact the guy from the shop told me that, yes it was original shirts but buyed appart from threadless... i don't know where it cames from, till today that i get my account for buying some shirts i love from this shop and notice that the brand of the shirts i have is Graphic Playground a Thailand trademark , here is more info about some desings i think they could be stealed from the community http://tuffshop.net/catalog/index.php?manufacturers_id=17&osCsid=20970c91a4c8eb6efeca9a69c8bac5e7
like the one from the communist party?
I'm sorry for my english i'm only a spanish boy... take care!

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decojdj on Jul 23 '07 at 5:49pm

i bought communist party and Funkalicious from a guy on ebay. They're on graphic playground t shirts and came from thailand. He's selling other stuff that i recognise from the site. you want his trading name, gimmie a shout. I had no idea they were from this site, and a search on the net led me to this blog and this site, which i'll now do all my buying from!

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WWM on Mar 03 '08 at 3:24pm

dude the only reason this pisses me off is that now everybody in Canberra Australiua has funkalicious because they are selling graphics playground shirts

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d3d on Mar 25 '08 at 10:52pm

i was just in a shop in the middle of canberra and saw these Graphic Playground tees. they had about 5 threadless designs there, and there's more if you search Graphic Playground on ebay too. i asked the guy in the shop if he realised their stock was all bootlegged and told him about threadless. he didn't seem very apologetic but he did at least seem surprised.

peterjanes on Mar 26 '08 at 11:56am

The internet is double edged. On one hand you get great sites like this and the abilty to send your ideas and designs around the world. But on the other hand some guy can log on steal some designs and start bootlegging them.

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Sparlingo on Sep 04 '08 at 10:32pm

The shop Polly Magoo's on Whyte Avenue here in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) sells "Graphic Playground" shirts here, too - all threadless designs with little to absolutely no variation.

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