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Has America become the new leader when it comes to Internet knockoffs?
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Not long ago, the act of “copying” a product nearly feature-for-feature would have been taken as a sign of innovation inferiority. After all, the conventional wisdom is that only the Chinese produce cheap Internet knockoffs, while real Silicon Valley companies design products from scratch. All of those hot new Chinese Internet companies like Weibo — aren’t they just Twitter, Facebook and Amazon copycats?
