Fox Crackdown on Jane Cobb Knit Caps

So; here's the thing. Fox has an intellectual property (Firefly) that they need to defend. Nay, they *have* to defend it otherwise they could technically lose the license for it. So, the object of the recent crackdown has been to eliminate third-party sellers infringing their license, which they've gone about in a pretty easy going manner (considering it's cease-and-desist notices rather than full-blown lawsuits coming after profits).

No use in mincing words; it still sucks to trample on your fan-base/customer-base, and generally it's not good business sense. Not that Fox has ever really been concerned with expanding upon or advertising Firefly , but that's neither here nor there.

Still, there's a couple of positive resultants here. First, fans are pissed and are probably going to keep making the hats and selling them underground anyway. Second would be this;

“@pirateknits:Captain, looking to unload illegal hats. twitter.com/PirateKnits/st…”You got a job? We'll do it. Don't much care what it is.

— Nathan Fillion (@NathanFillion) April 11, 2013

Note that in this case, Nathan Fillion chose to retweet this from one of his fans, and the "You got a job?" quote is from him and not the original poster. It's tacit approval of their activity and the boldness in which they are going about it. In this day and age, it does the cochleae of my heart good to see an established actor standing with his fan-base, rather than with profit, and sticking with the spirit of the character that his fans came to love. Good show!