Accept no imitations
13 September 2012
Fake DVDs, watches and designer clothes are a familiar problem in the consumer goods market. But, reports Mark Whitehead, the pirates are also targeting business-to-business supplies - with deadly consequences
It’s an ordinary high street in north London: the shops are open and people are going about their business, including a young man who has set up a stall on the pavement selling DVDs at remarkably good prices. On the face of it, it’s a laudable exercise in free enterprise offering a cut-price service.
But all of the DVDs are fake and every time one is sold, the...