On: Out of Stock: How to Survive the LTO-8 Tape Shortage

[votepaunchy]

> have somebody please clone and sell them out of a country that doesn't really care about patent infringement

How would one “sell out of a country” when it’s an import ban?

“By March 2019, US import bans of LTO products of both manufacturers were in place.”

[macintux → votepaunchy]

It’s not obvious from that sentence whether the ban is on LTO-8 in general, or just from Sony and Fuji. It’s quite possible it’s only the latter.

[dfrage → macintux]

From previous reading, both are banned, Fuji recently: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/31/lto_patent_case_hit... (Although previously I remember it was Sony that declined to start up LTO-8 production, after getting their importation of similar BaFe LTO-7 tapes banned, maybe el Reg got which was which confused in the article.)