[mritun]

Fake and counterfeit chips & products are scourge of our industry. Their shady manufacturers put the customers at risk and put the original manufacturers in an impossible position. I don’t envy the position Prolific is in. Whatever we can do to put the fakers out of business is good!

[josephcsible]

> Whatever we can do to put the fakers out of business is good!

Not if it means hurting innocent third parties, who didn't know the chips were fake and now they're all in the field and not working.

[manicdee]

“Innocent” third parties who scored a great deal on discount “Prol1fic” chips on AliBaba?

Provenance is an important part of logistics which you lose as soon as you source parts from third party sites like Amazon, eBay, AliBaba and so forth.

[josephcsible]

This change isn't punishing the people who scored a great deal on discount “Prol1fic” chips on AliBaba. It's punishing the people whose supplier's supplier's supplier did so.

[xeyownt]

I suggest displaying a banner saying "DO NOT USE CLONE!" every time you use the device.

This worked very well for DVDs...

[muro]

You don't get on the original, only on clones - I think that's a win.