counterfeiting
Feds Celebrate Cyber Monday With Massive Domain Name Seizure
Lauri Apple · 11/26/11 01:49PMPetty Hot Dog Thief to Spend 80 Years in Prison
Lauri Apple · 11/20/11 06:32PMAmerica's Worst Drug Dealers Swap Fake Cocaine for Fake Money
Jeff Neumann · 02/04/11 06:16AMFeds Raid Illegal Retail Websites—But Some Just Pop Back Up
Remy Stern · 11/29/10 07:02PMNew $100 Bill Embarrassingly Colorful
Hamilton Nolan · 04/21/10 11:37AMNYC's Homeless Denied Canal Street's Finest
cityfile · 01/13/10 01:14PMH&M took some heat last week after it was revealed that one of the company's stores in Midtown regularly destroyed its unsold merchandise rather than give the items to charity. The Swedish retailer revised its policy the next day, but now it's the mayor's turn on the hot seat. It seems the NYPD has been incinerating or shredding the counterfeit clothing that it's seized over the past year, thus "abandoning a practice of giving knockoff garments to groups that help the needy." [NYT]
In Defense of Counterfeiting
cityfile · 01/11/10 02:04PMThe War on Counterfeiting Goes Hi-Tech
cityfile · 12/10/09 12:00PMYour Holiday Shopping Just Got Pricier
cityfile · 12/08/09 01:31PMIf, like any devoted son or daughter, you were planning to buy your mom a fake Louis Vuitton bag for Christmas and pass it off as the real thing, you may now need to make other arrangements. The NYPD staged a raid on counterfeiters on Canal Street earlier today and shut down 30 storefronts that were selling fake bags, watches, and wallets, and perfume. [WABC, NBC]
You Thought the Fakes on Canal Street Were Bad?
cityfile · 11/10/09 01:14PMThe Latest Threat to Goldman's Brand
cityfile · 08/13/09 08:59AMIt's been a bruising few weeks for Goldman Sachs what with the tough questions about the role the firm played in the mortgage meltdown and subsequent bailout, and any special treatment it may have received from Washington officials like former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson. But it looks like the firm's lawyers now have one more headache to deal with: the dude in Thailand who is selling unauthorized (and terribly chintzy) Goldman-branded "keychain watches" on Ebay for $9.95 a pop. "Makes a great gift for someone," reads the ad. It doesn't specify who this "someone" is. But if you're looking to give a friend at the firm a way to count down the minutes until his gigantic bonus shows up in his checking account, you probably should make a move before Goldman's lawyers do. [Ebay]
Kelly on the TV, Project Runway Needs You
cityfile · 04/15/09 07:24PM
• Kelly Cutrone's forthcoming reality show has a name: Kell on Earth will be a "no-holds-barred look into the life of one of America's most legitimate tastemakers," according to Bravo. [Fashionista]
• Project Runway is looking for contestants for the show's seventh season. Unfortunately if you make the cut, you'll be appearing on Lifetime. [NYM]
• Emma Watson is the new face of Burberry. [SW]
• What's Arden Wohl up to? Posing for a lookbook, for one thing. [Nylon]
• Eccentric fashion on NYC social scene: the hits and misses. [WWD]
• A woman who sold four fake Birkin bags has been fined $7.5 million. It went down in Taiwan, though, so the ladies of Canal Street are safe for now. [NYM]
Your Fake Purse Will Make You Cheat and Lie
cityfile · 03/17/09 08:10AMWhen you see an article about the "moral costs" of counterfeiting luxury goods, you probably expect to read upsetting details about ten-year-olds in sweatshops working 18-hour days. But Harper's Bazaar has to keep its advertisers happy, which explains why the mag held an "anti-counterfeiting summit" this week, and explored the idea that Schenectady soccer moms might somehow be less likely to drop $50 on a replica Kate Spade purse if they thought it might disturb their own proud moral compass. The event featured a talk by Professor Dan Ariely of MIT and Duke, who presented a report called "Faking It: The Psychology of Dishonesty and Counterfeits," which explains how the mere act of wearing a fake makes you a bad person who will do bad things.
The World's Most Counterfeited Brand
cityfile · 08/20/08 05:25AMCoach Brand Teaches Students How To Be Dirty Shills
Hamilton Nolan · 05/05/08 03:12PMHunter College, the luxury brand Coach, fraudulent PR campaigns, and dishonest corporate collaboration with academia are the topics of the day today. Important topics! Adweek has just come out with a long investigative piece on a Coach-sponsored PR class at Hunter, which reeks of impropriety and dishonesty, and ended up tangling a bunch of college kids up in a fake online PR blog that makes them all look like a bunch of shady, dishonest undercover marketing hacks. "I knew a lot of hell would break loose about the class. And it did," said the teacher. Indeed. The condensed version of the whole sordid tale, after the jump.