cheese Italians are microchipping Parmesan to crack down on bootleg cheese Thom Dunn

cards 82-year-old man charged after allegedly selling $800,000 worth of fake Michael Jordan basketball cards Rob Beschizza

counterfeiting How North Korea perfected counterfeiting $100 bills Mark Frauenfelder

crimes US authorities seize almost one million dollars in counterfeit $1 bills David Pescovitz

Copyfight China wants to lead the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization Cory Doctorow

china Online retailers Shein and Temu go to war Rob Beschizza

crimes How counterfeit money is made and passed (video) David Pescovitz

Technology An urgent proposal to make AI-generated fake people illegal Ruben Bolling

counterfeiters Watch counterfeiter Jeff Turner describe how he perfected his pseudo-Supernote Andrew Yi

10 places around the world you're not allowed to visit  Mark Frauenfelder

art The counterfeiting trial of J.S.G. Boggs Mark Frauenfelder

crrrrypto Fraud-filled crypto marketplace Cent stops trading its own NFTs Jason Weisberger

pokemon Man arrested for counterfeiting 25 popsicle sticks to claim prize Mark Frauenfelder

Business The three biggest Chinese business scams that target foreign firms Cory Doctorow

crimes Counterfeiter caught after he tossed test prints in his trash David Pescovitz

late stage capitalism Wework, Uber, Lyft, Netflix, Bird, Amazon: late-stage capitalism is all about money-losing predatory pricing aimed at creating monopolies Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Poland rejects the EU's copyright censorship plans, calls it #ACTA2 Cory Doctorow

law Debullshitifying Microsoft's smear campaign against the recycler it helped send to prison Cory Doctorow

Business Microsoft sends recycler to jail for reinstalling obsolete, licensed copies of Windows on refurbished PCs Cory Doctorow

lawsuits Amazon hit with class-action lawsuit for selling unsafe eclipse glasses Mark Frauenfelder