Seizures and discoveries include a number around the UK, one yielding large amounts of fake luxury goods and another yielding £1.75 million worth of counterfeit clothing... $4 million worth of counterfeit Louis Vuitton brand goods were seized in a raid on a shopping mall in the Philippines... In Dubai, more than a million counterfeit sexual enhancement pills were seized by customs... Similarly in the UK £180,000 worth of fake medicines were seized in a joint operation between police and the UK Medicine and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)... More than 20,000 pirated DVDs were seized in Malaysia.

Cases and outcomes include a man in the UK being given a jail sentence of four years for selling fake golf clubs over eBay.

Policy developments include a large number of articles on the subject of digital piracy. In the UK the House of Lords has criticised the government’s plans to disconnect illegal file sharers from the internet... Similarly, a large number of technology companies including Google, Yahoo, Facebook and BT have written an open letter attacking the same amendment to the bill as criticised above... Meanwhile the European Parliament has voted 663 - 13 for a resolution calling for more transparency in the negotiation of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) and criticised the parts of the agreement calling for the internet to be cut off from persistent illegal file sharers.

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