If there's one commonality throughout the counterfeit world, it's deception.
The police said yesterday that they had seized hundreds of counterfeit World Series tickets and arrested 14 men in three schemes.
Put another way, the philosophical skeptic challenges our ordinary assumption that there is evidence available that can help us to discriminate between the real world and some counterfeit world that appears in all ways to be identical to the real world.
The rapid evolution of digital technology has made it possible for filmmakers like Peter Jackson and George Lucas to summon up ever more plausible and richly imagined counterfeit worlds, free of clunky mechanical props and stagy costumes.
In response to a rambling note that she wrote in March 2002 about her responsibility for Mr. Berkus' prison sentence, Mr. Brokate wrote, "If you stayed away from the counterfeiting world, you would not have the problems of Hal Berkus".
For all the best efforts of law enforcement to stem the billion-dollar world counterfeit trade (in the United States, a first-time counterfeiter can face up to 10 years in prison and $2 million in fines), fake Goyards continue to proliferate.
In response, many organizations are focusing on product counterfeiting including INTERPOL, International Standards Organization, World Health Organization, World Customs Organization, and the U.S. Department of Justice.
I was heading to a street market in Naples, willing to face those perils to gain access to some of the finest counterfeits in the world: Gucci, Fendi and Louis Vuitton bags, belts and wallets, possibly siphoned off from the local factories and sold at rock-bottom prices to she who knows how to negotiate.
Even brands weren't as important then, so counterfeiting wasn't, either — the world market in counterfeit goods in the mid-eighties was only a hundredth the size that it is now.
This article caught my attention because I'm familiar with the world of counterfeit purses.
The man, Rafael Gonzalez of Richmond Hill, and 20 other people had been charged with distributing millions of counterfeit movies around the world, said Michael J. Garcia, the United States attorney in Manhattan.
