Why aren't they protecting American IPs?
It's bad on so many levels. These companies are blatantly stealing. Filth of humanityThe big thing here is not the loss of revenue, though it matters. More dangerous is the loss of reputation. Someone buys these pickups and doesn't like them. From there on in anywhere they see SD pickups mentioned online their reply is "I installed Seymour Duncan pickups in my guitar and they sucked". Even though they never really ever tried the product. And that is the really sad thing the bootlegger is robbing the buyer of a great experience, with a great pickup.
It looks like SD finally caved and gave us philips height adjustment screws.
I would imagine that this sort of thing is difficult and expensive to fight. This company isn't even trying to make it look like a genuine thing. I can imagine what other products they slap a logo on and pass off as something genuine.