Seizures and discoveries include in Tanzania, authorities seized and destroyed 340 cartons of fake motor vehicle parts… A huge consignment of fake pharmaceuticals was impounded in Nigeria… In the US, police seized fake handbags worth $125,000 and arrested 21 people… In Ireland, counterfeit cigarettes worth an estimated €3.2 million were seized at a container port… 38,000 CDs containing movies and software were seized in Saudi Arabia… In the UK, 20,000 pirated DVD and Blue-Ray discs were found in a car boot sale.

Cases and outcomes include in the UK, a man was sentenced to a year in jail for pirating and selling illegal copies of video games… Also in the UK, a man was jailed for six months after being found with 730,000 counterfeit cigarettes in his car… A couple in the US who sold assorted fake goods were fined $75,000 but escaped jail… A international criminal syndicate selling counterfeiting merchandise and narcotics has been broken up in the US.

Policy developments include in the UK, the government publishing a paper proposing a Digital Right Agency to address copyright issues and illegal file sharing.

Studies and reports out include one published by PriceMinister, which found that in 2008 £800 million fake goods were sold online in the UK… A report by the Japan Times found that 81.5 percent of counterfeit products in Japan originated in China.