Counterfeiting and piracy is driven by high profits and low risks, and it is going to take strong legal structures and enforcement of the laws to bring an end to the trade in fakes
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security seized an estimated $200 million in counterfeit merchandise during the 2007 fiscal year – an increase of 27 percent from the year before.
In the last decade, the luxury goods industry has witnessed intellectual property and trademark infringement rise exponentially, thanks to a vast underworld of counterfeiters….
Chinese regulators said they would crack down on counterfeiters and uncertified chemical companies. But they haven't opened an investigation into a single one of the estimated 80,000 chemical companies
China saw a 53 percent increase in the number of firms using copyrighted software, bringing the total since new laws came into action in April, 2006 to 2,300.
