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Back in 2009, Techdirt wrote about an interesting challenge to a then-new law against counterfeits in Kenya, on the grounds that it migh...

As Michael Geist and others have pointed out, ACTA is the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement without the main sources of counterfeits b...

As far as we can tell, ACTA has been put on hold for months, maybe even a year, while the European Court of Justice (ECJ) considers its c...

The European Commission's defence of ACTA has essentially two prongs. The first is that "ACTA changes nothing for Europeans&quo...

The narrative around counterfeit goods usually ends with their seizure. We rarely get to hear or see what happens to them afterwards unl...

One of the favorite techniques of those pushing for ever-more severe penalties for copyright infringement is to blur the distinction betwe...

The term "shanzhai" literally means a fortified mountain village, and originally meant those places in China that were outside g...

Reports on piracy are like buses: you wait for ever, and then three come at once. In a way, that's not surprising. To begin with, the c...

As promised, I append below a near-final draft of my response to the European Commission's consultation on IPRED. Once again, I urge you...

As I've noted before, one of the tricks used in the current ACTA negotiations is to blur the lines between counterfeiting and piracy, a...

The best thing I have read about the current brouhaha surrounding Craiglist's shutdown of its “Adult Services” section is danah boyd'...

Here's a fascinating item : A new EU-funded report has declared that it is OK to buy fake designer goods. The study, co-written by a Hom...

As long-suffering readers will know, I've been banging on about the dangers to free software – and much else – of the Anti-Counterfeitin...

The EU has made an official statement [. pdf ] on ACTA. As you might expect, it is as wriggly a wriggly thing as a wriggly thing can. Here ...

Sorry to rattle on about ACTA, but it seems there's something of a concerted campaign to "counter" all the noise we little peo...

I've noted several times an increasingly popular trope of the intellectual monopolists: since counterfeiting is often linked with organi...

The eagle-eyed Monica Horten has spotted something: Following a question on counterfeiting and piracy from Italian MEP Salvini, Michel Barn...

I've written several times about the trick that ACTA uses to blur the distinction between large-scale, criminal counterfeiting, and dom...

The other day I was writing about the great digital bait and switch : Counterfeiting morphed into copyright infringement ... there's cle...

One of the (many) things that get my goat about ACTA is the sheer dishonesty of the project. It was originally put forward as aiming to cur...