Genuine Counterfeits

The NYT discovers a real case of counterfeiting in an article about a wine dealer who was arrested for selling millions of dollars of fake wine. This one is worth noting because it is in fact actual counterfeiting, as opposed to the cases of selling unauthorized copies that are often wrongly identified as "counterfeits" in the media.

The difference is that in a case of actual counterfeiting the buyer is defrauded. They think that they are getting something that they actually are not getting. ...