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Some $35 million in counterfeit designer goods – including mounds of knockoff Louis Vuitton and Gucci bags – were seized in a police raid, as cops busted 18 people for allegedly selling the fakes in plain sight on busy Lower Manhattan sidewalks. Video posted by NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell on social media shows dozens of handbags lined up on top of subway grates, and some assorted wallets, sunglasses and caps on display on tables at the corner of Canal Street and Broadway Wednesday evening as officers worked to dismantle the illicit set-up. “We received a tremendous amount of...

Got a DBPOWER DB0923 GoPro-like thing. - Can't sync to the android phone. If I can't see the video feed I can't compose sh-t. Any generic wi-fi- video android app that works well? DBPro is pretty big or they were. Up late tonight, its our last night. If nothing I just want to hammer DBPower but with 3 tweets in it says if I do this I'll lose everything. I just want to post the tweet(s). See here: Help!

For the first time, the UAC showed the S-70 Okhotnik drone equipped with a flat jet nozzle. The UAV was created by the Sukhoi company. The rollout of the new model took place at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant. V.P. Chkalov. At the Valery Chkalov Novosibirsk Aircraft Building Plant, the first prototype of the newest heavy attack unmanned aerial vehicle Sukhoi S-70 “Okhotnik” with a jet flat nozzle to further reduce thermal and radar signature was rolled out.

The rise of fashion in North Korea A group of young women pose for a photo in Pyongyang. Notice the fake Prada and Dior handbags – probably imported into North Korea via China

Land Rover just launched their Chinese-built Evoque at the Guangzhou Auto Show, while a few feet away, copycat LandWind X7 offered the same design at quarter of the price. AWKWARD!! This Is Not A Range Rover Evoque - But rather its Chinese cousin, the Landwind X7 Understandably, JLR is about to file a complaint to Chinese officials now regarding IP theft. I say good luck with that, but one can sure feel bad for Jaguar Land Rover. They put their money in a joint venture with Chinese manufacturer Chery to start the Evoque's local production, and this is what they...

December 12, 2011, 9:02 PM HKT Latest China Knock-Off Craze: Luxury (Shopping) Bags The ability to flaunt Gucci and Chanel shopping bags has long drawn Chinese shoppers to luxury labels. But now China’s high-end show-offs are figuring out that there’s no need to spend thousands of yuan for a bag that’s available online for a mere fraction of the price. According to a report in the state-run China Daily, shopping bags emblazoned with names like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Chanel, Prada and Burberry have become the latest must-have among Chinese online shoppers – and in true China fashion, most of them...

'Made in China' brands now being faked by foreign copycats * Source: Global Times * [08:05 April 27 2010] By Lin Meilian Foreign companies often complain that Chinese manufacturers steal patented technology to make shanzhai, or copycat products, at a cheaper price. Now a Chinese technology company is making a reverse charge that Made in China inventions are being counterfeited overseas. To mark World Intellectual Property Day Monday, a local newspaper in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, reported that some Chinese companies have not protected their own trademarks and copyrights, resulting in huge economic losses due to the theft of patented technology...

BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer is not happy. In a case which proves that nothing is immune to the sleight of hand of Chinese manufacturers and their ability and willingness to clone any product on earth, BMW has been forced to threaten legal action over a cheap knock-off version of their popular X5 SUV. The Chinese-made SUV which ironically enough is called CEO is almost identical in appearance to BMW’s X5…especially from the rear. “We have already taken steps against the marketing of the CEO (SUV) in Europe. Should this car be presented at the IAA, we will look into taking...

Plastic surgeon Frederic Corbin was intrigued last year when he saw an ad for a product that offered the same protein used in the wildly popular wrinkle treatment Botox — only much, much, cheaper. "My initial reaction was, 'Hmm, Botox now has some competition,'" recalled Corbin, who practices in Beverly Hills, Calif. But when he received a vial of the botulinum toxin in the mail, he was puzzled by the warning: "For Research Purposes Only. Not for Human Use." He says he returned it and more or less forgot about it until he heard about four people last December whose...

Faced with the growing concern of DVD piracy, one of Hollywood's biggest movie studios is taking steps to fight the sale of illegally manufactured home videos in China. In the coming months, Time Warner Inc.'s Warner Bros. Entertainment plans to release dozens of its films on DVD to retailers in China -- at deeply discounted prices. The studio's hope: that cheap and legitimate DVDs will compete effectively enough with their bootlegged counterparts to offset the losses the company has weathered from piracy. Warner's move is among the most-aggressive step taken by a U.S. studio to hasten a legitimate DVD market...

Sometimes it's unfortunate that the beat goes on. Sometimes it's necessary to say, "Enough is enough." We have reached that moment. The first time this dawned on me, I was at the gym. Generally speaking, the gym is a haven for terrible, long-forgotten music. A session won't pass without the emergence of a bad early 1990s dance track, my favourite being Mr Vein. Anyway, on this particular occasion my tolerance was stretched beyond breaking point. Roger Waters would have been cringing, surely. Hell, I was physically convulsing and it wasn't even my song to get protective over. I let it...