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Counterfeit

World Music

Inside the Music Business in China

As labels big and small attempt to gain traction in the world’s largest market, they’re learning that selling pop is never simple in the epicenter of piracy.

Ed Peto The Register Nov 2007 10min Permalink

Crime

To Catch a Counterfeiter

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.

Joshua Hunt California Sunday Aug 2017 15min Permalink

World

China’s Black Market City

In mountainous Wenzhou “the emperor is far away” and the freest of markets reign.

Bradley Gardner Reason Dec 2011 15min Permalink

Arts

The Ultimate Counterfeiter Isn't a Crook—He's an Artist

A painter’s dogged, doomed pursuit of the perfect $100 bill.

David Wolman Wired May 2012 20min Permalink

World

The Fall of Randolph Hobson Guthrie III

An American, born into privilege, became a bootleg DVD kingpin in Shanghai and then, in an unprecedented development, landed in Chinese prison.

Joshua Davis Wired Oct 2005 25min Permalink