Re: Behringer

[Tom Ritchford <tom@swirly.com>]

From: Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>

>At 5:08 AM -0400 6/12/01, SoundFNR@aol.com wrote:
>>So why are people really down on Behringer?
>>There's no evidence as to how they treat their Chinese employees.
>>And there doesn't appear to be a proven case of them ripping
>>off circuits that weren't public domain.
>
>I refer you to a letter from Marvin Caesar, founder and president of 
>Aphex.  According to Caesar, the Aphex Aural Exciter was the first 
>product design Behringer ripped off, right down to copying the 
>manual. Aphex's suit against Behringer was indeed settled in court, 
>in Aphex's favor:
>
>http://groups.google.com/groups?q=behringer&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&rnum=2 
>&ic=1&selm=7f5aop%24ukk%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com

This article is pretty shocking.

>The manual, being so blatant a copy, caused people
>who bought the Behringer copy to call our distributor in Germany for 
>service.
>
>Behringer's attack on our products
>was not limited to the Aural Exciter. He tried to copy our 612 gate. He 
>could
>not get our VCA so he used the VCA that we had used previously. We had to 
>use
>a heat spreader on our new VCA which was not necessary on the previous
>design. Behringer glued a useless piece of metal on his VCA's showing 
>that he
>either did not understand what was going on in the unit, only making a 
>poor
>copy of it, or he simply tried to copy as exactly as possible. He also 
>copied
>our manual- page for page, illustration for illustration. The court
>immediately issued an order for him to stop and reimbursed us for our 
>legal
>fees.


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