jaydee116 have you considered the limits of manufacturing blocks.
There are only so many ways a block can be made and Cathar seems to have discovered them first and then perfected them.
The ww design uses fins, so do air cooling heatsinks - for example the slk800 im using now. Therefore Cathar did not invent that idea but insead converted it from air cooling to watercooling and perfected it.
I do respect copyrights etc.. but I do not think of manufacturing techniques as copyright'able etc.. you can only copyright a product, not a idea.
I would agree if the block was acctually copied, but if they took the route of "We will make a channel/fin based block. Lets make 100 different desisns and find the best, then we well sell that" then there is nothing wrong with that.
If they were to acctually get a WW block and copy the dimensions from it or other ways of clearly copying the design then I would definatly be against it. Have you any evidence of this, have you acctually got one of those blocks and compared it or is this all based around one picure? However I do think this pictured block does look too much like the ww block and they shouldnt have made it so similar as that wont benifit anyone.
I thought this forum was about improving waterblocks. This forum is like a reference book, any one that reads it can learn from it. People that post good designs here should expect others to use them as a reference for making there own blocks. Manufacturers would see it the same way and use it to learn, but not to copy.
I agree with Cathars post above.
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