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Wow. Counterfeit watches to generic drugs. A big leap. My question to people who buy knock offs is: "If you had a product that was knocked off and lost 10% or more of your sales to black and grey market trade, would you be pissed off?"

I work with brands to mitigate counterfeiting. It's a tough racket. Did anyone ever die from a counterfeit Rolex? Probably not unless there was a lot of lead in the plating and they licked the coating off. Counterfeit batteries? Yep, people haved died from explosions and fires. Would you want to be on a plane at 35,000 feet and a batch of counterfeit Lithium Ion batteries in the cargo hold overheat and catch fire? Probably not. Would you buy Viagra from some Canadian pharmacy that actually is filling prescriptions from China? Well you might if you're horny (no, you wouldn't).

Basically the guys who knock off watches will knock off any product or drug. It's all about opportunity and profit. These organizations are as well run as many Fortune 500 companies. Stay with me for a second: by supporting counterfeits, no matter what the product is, encourages black market, criminal and organized crime syndicates as well as terrorist organizations.

For more info, just read about it in World Health Organization or World Trade Organization reports. There's some scary shit happening out there.