Seizures and discoveries include almost 400,000 counterfeit pharmaceuticals for erectile dysfunction were impounded at an Argentinean port... In the UK, a similar seizure of fake medicine took place at an airport yielding 80,000 tablets... In the US, seizures took place of luxury and assorted counterfeit goods worth millions of dollars... 300,000 pirated CDs and DVDs were seized in Vietnam.

Cases and outcomes include in the UK, a man who ran the music-sharing website Oink, facilitating the download of 21 million music files, has been found not guilty of conspiracy to defraud... A judge in the US has awarded Dish Network $51 million in damages from a satellite pirate who distributed software that allowed people to receive television programmes from the company without paying for them... Two men in the UK have been jailed after more than half a million counterfeit cigarettes were found by customs officers... The Chinese government is being sued for $2.2 billion for allegedly copying a computer program designed by an American firm.

Policy developments include in the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency is planning to strengthen penalties against counterfeiters, making it a specific criminal offence with a maximum sentence of 12 years.

Studies and reports out include one from the Auto Component Manufacturers Association of India that states that the government is losing $350 million each year because of the sale of fake auto components... A report from Pakistan finds that 1000 deaths are caused each year due to spurious drugs.

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