> [It's] one thing to copy a design and stick your own name on it,
> another to clone something and stick the legit company name and logo
> on it.  Why can't they brick a fake if they want to [...]

The same reason I'm not allowed to smash your car window, even if your
car bears an unauthorized copy of my company's logo: it's vandalism,
basically.

> If I sent a shipload of fake Gucci bags to California the local port
> authorities would just grab them and burn them.

If you want to argue that Customs has the right to take a shipment of
the fake devices and brick them en masse, I think you'll get a lot less
argument.  A better analogy to the case at hand would be, if you sold a
fake Gucci bag retail and Gucci thought they had the right to take it
from the buyer and burn it.

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