Women in bikinis on their way to the indoor pool sashayed past outlets selling everything from fake watches to fake jewellery and fake DVDs.
On Khao San Road, a backpackers' hotspot in the capital, the pavement was full of people selling massages, fake DVDs and bottles of cheap spirits.
Fake DVDs are not often cased, or stored in a wallet or leather case.
"I started doing my Christmas shopping already, and I bought the fake DVD version of 'Shrek 2,"' he says in rapid patter.
From March to December 2001, the men, operating out of a storefront on Myrtle Avenue, were principal suppliers of fake DVD's and CD's to street vendors throughout the metropolitan area, the United States attorney's office said.
After all, if you buy a cheap, fake DVD of Windows on eBay and it turns out the disc has been pre-loaded with malware, that's bad news for the consumer and hurts the Microsoft brand.
The attacks against the Pirate Bay have given it far more popularity than it really deserves and through a combination of excellent branding and nearly non-stop coverage, everyone with an Internet connection knows of that Jolly Roger waving endlessly in the digital winds while the real business of piracy – counterfeiting, fake DVD sales, and fraud – are going on in the shadows.
The collaboration paid off on May 8, when Holmes Hi-Tech and police officers raided five locations on Broadway just north of Canal Street that netted a cache of fake sunglasses, DVD's, handbags and watches whose retail value was estimated as more than $100 million.
China is known for its pirated DVDs and fake designer gear, but these criminals were producing something more intellectual: fake scholarly articles which they sold to academics, and counterfeit versions of existing medical journals in which they sold publication slots.In this section Looks good on paper End of the road?
Mr. Xu's hit, about a migrant hawking pirated DVDs and fake IDs in the capital, was unexpected.
But he wasn't selling organs or bootlegged DVDs or fake Rolex watches he was selling mouthwash, detergent, and potato chips.
