Counterfeit

deceiving or defrauding. Counterfeiting is a huge problem in today’s world and it is a threat to companies who produces and designs products. The counterfeiting capital is most certainly China where at least 16 billion dollars of goods are sold as a counterfeit. Every year companies who operate in China lose a lot of revenue do to counterfeiting. For example, The International Property Alliance claimed that 90% of musical records being sold in China are pirated. This means that

Introduction The U.S Secret Service is among the constituents of the department of Homeland Security. It was originally part U.S Department of Treasury (Reese, 2009). The agency was mainly formed to fight the production of counterfeit money which had affected nearly a third of the country’s population. Its responsibilities eventually increased after financial crimes increased and political leaders became a target for assassination. The agency constitutes of two sections namely: the special agent

Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) were big bills recently in the EU and America that caught the attention of nearly every internet user. It was hard to not notice these two bills. These legislations would have pushed copyright infringement on many sites and much of the internet as it is known would have been shut down. On January 18, big sites such as Wikipedia, and Google blacked out their site for a day. This sent a loud and clear message to the creators

Nobody would like it if I had the ability to forge or counterfeit everyone’s valuables and render them worthless, especially not the money you bust your ass all week, every week to earn. This would be catastrophic and would leave you wondering why….. Why should you kill yourselves in your jobs trying to get to the top of the metaphorical totem pole, to earn the ‘big bucks’, if I could sit in my basement and continuously print off 20, 50 or 100 euro notes with the press of a button. This would just

the packaging, color scheme, and labeling just to name a few, of the designers product. Sellers don’t see the harm in making a little extra money, the companies make millions. Buyers don’t see the harm, because it looks good. However, per CNBC counterfeit goods may have a reputation for poor design, unsafe parts and toxic elements, but consumers don’t seem to mind. No country has been associated with dangerous knock offs more often than

Caucasian, and my mom Chinese, I was fortunate enough to experience two completely different cultures at a young age. Even though I reside in California, where diversity is a natural occurrence, I still believed that some people sought to place counterfeit stereotypes on ethnic groups. Many of the stereotypes placed on Chinese people has to do with the fact that we are strict, especially parents. In spite of that impression, I wasn’t raised with strict parents. They both wanted me to choose my own

The Disloyal King: The Hardly Known Story of the Counterfeit Work of Martin Luther King Jr. No doubt the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. changed the American history in the mid-1950s.’ A human rights icon, fitting injustice suffered against black people. After researching his life and work, a revealing scandal of plagiarism surfaced, damaging his personal image and work. Accomplishment and Profile. Dr. Martin Luther King was an illustrious man, known to his Civil Rights Movement leadership. The first

Abstract: India is a one of the key markets of counterfeit products in South Asia which has negatively affected its economy since many years. The trade of counterfeit and pirated products hamper the development of knowledge and innovation as it can greatly reduce the economic benefits for the original creator of products. Widespread and rampant piracy and weak intellectual property rights (IPR) dilutes the development of local industry and also endangers the huge investments made in research and

books, Counterfeit Son and The Perfect Shot by Elaine Marie Alphin, are two examples of how things can seem so different but yet be so similar. The most distinct similarities in her style are her motifs and her plot development. The first stylistic element Alphin uses are her motifs. In Counterfeit Son and The Perfect Shot, she uses multiple of the same motifs like death and overcoming troubles. Alphin first shows the motif of death by saying, “‘That is when I heard Hank was dead”’(Counterfeit Son

Dangers of Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Drugs Remember that time, you really wanted to buy a Louis Vuitton bag? Then the thought of spending thousands on it held you back? So instead you bought a knock off, and saved yourself a boat load of money. No harm done, right? However, what if it wasn’t just a purse that you bought as a counterfeit? What if it was a knockoff Tylenol or birth control? Do you think it would be harmful, then? This happens all the time, and the production and