Dbrand, the device skin company known for trolling brands like Sony and Nintendo, is waging a legal battle of its own.
The company is suing rival Casetify over claims it blatantly copied Dbrand’s Teardown device skins and cases, which are made to look like the internals of whatever phone, tablet, or laptop you’ve purchased them for.
In March, one user on X (formerly Twitter) pointed out that Casetify appeared to be reusing the image of the same internals across different phone models, which means they didn’t accurately represent the insides of each device they were sold for.
“If CASETiFY had simply created their own Teardown-esque design from scratch, we wouldn’t have anything to take issue with,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz tells The Verge.
That’s why, instead of issuing a cease-and-desist order, Dbrand is hitting Casetify with a federal lawsuit in Canadian courts, where the company is based, and seeking eight figures in damages.
Dbrand is also launching a brand-new set of X-ray skins across its entire portfolio today that are rather different from the Teardown ones — they’re black and white, captured at 50 micron resolution by a lab called Haven Metrology, and show details that wouldn’t be visible simply by removing the back cover of a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld.
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My favorite part of this was X “(formerly Twitter)” even when a bot is most efficiently paraphrasing it’s still necessary to waste two words to clarify that stupid apps name.
It also didn’t actually mention why it was copyright infringement and included a whole paragraph on how they’re not actually accurate to the internals
The bot’s been like this for months, it’s almost like it’s throwing away the most relevant text and just keeping tangents and rephrasing of the headlines
This is what happens when ai learns from random people shooting from the hip on the internet. Misses the point, hung up on the wrong info, headline hypothesis, and more fun nonsense we still don’t know are it’s blind spots yet. Glad for the progress it’s help with some sciences from what I’ve heard, but I think we all might be leaning into this a little too quickly.
Edit: good enough bot, could use some tuning all the same. Not grabbing a pitchfork for the tech by the way, just concerned about autocars, marketing, and arts that might get real fucky with this new fangled flim flam.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Dbrand, the device skin company known for trolling brands like Sony and Nintendo, is waging a legal battle of its own.
The company is suing rival Casetify over claims it blatantly copied Dbrand’s Teardown device skins and cases, which are made to look like the internals of whatever phone, tablet, or laptop you’ve purchased them for.
In March, one user on X (formerly Twitter) pointed out that Casetify appeared to be reusing the image of the same internals across different phone models, which means they didn’t accurately represent the insides of each device they were sold for.
“If CASETiFY had simply created their own Teardown-esque design from scratch, we wouldn’t have anything to take issue with,” Dbrand CEO Adam Ijaz tells The Verge.
That’s why, instead of issuing a cease-and-desist order, Dbrand is hitting Casetify with a federal lawsuit in Canadian courts, where the company is based, and seeking eight figures in damages.
Dbrand is also launching a brand-new set of X-ray skins across its entire portfolio today that are rather different from the Teardown ones — they’re black and white, captured at 50 micron resolution by a lab called Haven Metrology, and show details that wouldn’t be visible simply by removing the back cover of a phone, laptop, or gaming handheld.
The original article contains 830 words, the summary contains 212 words. Saved 74%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
My favorite part of this was X “(formerly Twitter)” even when a bot is most efficiently paraphrasing it’s still necessary to waste two words to clarify that stupid apps name.
It also didn’t actually mention why it was copyright infringement and included a whole paragraph on how they’re not actually accurate to the internals
The bot’s been like this for months, it’s almost like it’s throwing away the most relevant text and just keeping tangents and rephrasing of the headlines
This is what happens when ai learns from random people shooting from the hip on the internet. Misses the point, hung up on the wrong info, headline hypothesis, and more fun nonsense we still don’t know are it’s blind spots yet. Glad for the progress it’s help with some sciences from what I’ve heard, but I think we all might be leaning into this a little too quickly.
Edit: good enough bot, could use some tuning all the same. Not grabbing a pitchfork for the tech by the way, just concerned about autocars, marketing, and arts that might get real fucky with this new fangled flim flam.