The diplomats and bureaucrats of every country try to hide secrets behind innocuous sounding names of things that don’t sound very important. This week’s best example is the posting of the list of notorious traders, including the Amazon look-alike, Taobao. These are the Internet sites that are said to facilitate the sale of counterfeit goods. The usual suspects like the Russian siteVKontakte.com are just ripping off movies and music left and right, but Taobao does better than that with all kinds of goods from Gucci to Zella made in little barns in China. They can make a hot item in a few days and stop selling them a few days after that. They are really good at their job. They seldom get caught in China which tells us a lot.
We need to do something about these sites, starting with blocking US access to these two sites. That is not a permanent solution because all they have to do is link to them though spam, but it will get the idea across. We lose millions of dollars in revenue every day.
There is one other place that was not mentioned that I want to reclaim - Amazon. Amazon sells a brand of goods that are “generic” i.e. the manufacturer varies and the goods can be functional but not from any single manufacturer. That is tacitly allowing them to sell counterfeit goods. We need to stop that too.
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