What harm does counterfeiting cause?
Counterfeiting causes harm in several ways: Buyers are misled into buying inferior goods, badly reproduced videos or CDs; retailers selling genuine goods lose out to those selling cheaper copies; manufacturers lose income and have to make job cuts; manufacturers’ reputations are damaged when poor quality counterfeits are mistaken for the genuine article. Fake goods are also not subject to the same safety checks as legitimate goods so could actually be dangerous.
