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So Rick, for the amp and cable DIYers here on HeadFi, starting in July all products sold to European customers must be made from lead-free parts and soldered with lead-free solder, correct? |
As far as I can tell the underground "plain brown wrapper" type sellers are safe until or if caught but all legit outlets are pretty much screwed unless they too are willing to cheat.
That in itself sucks because it makes criminals out of some who would otherwise play by the rules but I can not see any way for the little mid level operator to have the means to fully comply and if they could why would they want to ?
Lead free is not a perfected technology yet is being force fed.This means either retool and upgrade everything to be in compliance then hope for the best (as in best being low product returns
),not cheap by the way,or go underground or go back at the law and try and get it modified (slim chance of THAT happening).
is another case where the multinational corporation selling disposable electronics will have an advantage but this time more than just a financial advantage but actually has the law on their side to eliminate the competition.
The smaller operations do not have the means to pay the proper bribes...um.... I mean legal fees
for a grandfather clause allowing them the time to come up to speed without going broke or law modification in favor of that operator.
There was a time when the "LAW" meant it was to diiferentiate between right and wrong with little doubt in anyone's mind what the difference was but in recent history the law is used to promote agenda or to pay favor to certain groups or even protect others (market share disguised as being green only to shut out the competition and thus shut them down from international trade rights).
Something can be illegal and be morally right or legal and be morally wrong.Twisted law using twisted logic.
As I have said here in threads many times and this most recently repeated at 6 moons,how can you claim to be making laws to protect the environment when the very law makes the amount of metal leaching into the earth multiply tenfold because the products themselves are garbage ?