The main harms caused by copycat products to consumers include the lack of quality assurance and the destruction of my country's research and development capabilities.

Copycat celebrities, copycat mobile phones, copycat drinks, etc. For a time, copycat culture began to prevail on the Internet, and copycat products began to gradually enrich all areas of people's production and life.

One of the dangers of copycat products is that their quality cannot be guaranteed. Some companies are labor-intensive. Naturally, their technology research and development will lag far behind that of regular brand products. Enterprises, the technological content of their products is far lower than those produced by regular manufacturers. Secondly, the strength of copycat products is low, and the products they produce are limited to imitating regular manufacturers and creating new self-innovations on top of them. What they have is only the advantages of their products, and they are not as good as regular products. As for the additional benefits provided - product service links, it is difficult for them to provide or even not provide corresponding post-product services. Based on the above two points, due to the lack of strength and misalignment of market positioning of counterfeit products, for consumers, they undoubtedly lay the foundation for the protection of their consumer rights.

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In fact, "copycats" mainly destroy our country's research and development capabilities. We know that China has been at the forefront of world civilization for most of its five thousand years of history. However, after the Age of Discovery, China gradually fell behind and was even defeated by Western powers in modern times, losing power and humiliating the country. This phenomenon has the consequences of not paying enough attention to intellectual property rights.

Intellectual property rights mainly include copyrights, patent rights and trademark rights. Its main function is to protect the rights of possession, use, profit and disposal of the fruits of intellectual labor. Because most intellectual labor is intangible, and the infringement on it can also be intangible. But the subjects who perform intellectual work need material help, which simply means food, clothing, housing, transportation, entertainment, etc.

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For example, if someone invents a gunpowder gun, in the West, he can organize production and then sell it to make profits, or he can sell his technology In return, if there is intellectual property protection, you can also rent out the technology (license) to collect rent (royalty fees). The people who buy and lease are professionals and belong to different groups. They know this thing. The value and the consideration paid are excellent, and the R&D personnel will become rich overnight and can pass on to their descendants (Nobel is an example), thereby promoting the R&D passion of inventors and related personnel. Then it is possible to invent matchlocks, flintlock guns, rifles, modern rifles, machine guns... thus enabling the rapid development of the Western firearms industry.

Therefore, we should boycott counterfeit products and safeguard our own rights and interests.