Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Attorney General's office just teamed up to shut down 150 websites selling counterfeit goods. Per AP:
"The government seized the domain names for the sites that sold everything from fake replica NBA jerseys to replica Louis Vuitton handbags and imitation Ugg boots.
"This is straight crime," ICE Director john Morton said. "This is people being duped into buying a counterfeit." The federal government has seized the domain names of 350 websites since first targeting online counterfeiters in June 2010. Each investigation, Morton said, has grown."
Also at the press conference was Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer.
Let me get this straight. The U.S. Government spends three months, and countless resources, prosecuting people selling fake Uggs and Louis Vuitton bags. Who are they protecting? Billion dollar corporations. But they turn a blind eye to a huge fraud harming actual Americans right now, letting Brooklyn conmen perform rampant Internet crime, via bait and switch advertisements, with impunity.
Time for the DOJ to do something. If you've been affected, send your thoughts to Lanny:
lanny.breuer@usdoj.gov
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They are protecting the 1%. The 1% contributes heavily to maintain the protection.
In a truly competitive marketplace, where you have freedom of entry, you don't have excess profits. Copyright/trademark laws allow a product to not have competition, and hence enjoy excess profits.
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