Amazon Gets Into the Counterfeiting Business

Not really. The Guardian has an article that begins by telling readers how Amazon produces a copy of a designer laptop stand and sells it for half the price as the designer stand. While the article correctly refers to the Amazon product a "knockoff," in other contexts, such as when discussing Chinese copies of US products, these copies are often referred to as "counterfeits."

This is not just a question of semantics. With a counterfeit, the buyer is being deceived. They pay a higher price bec...