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China Cracks Down On Fake Apple Stores

Posted by timothy on from the love-apple-but-a-tomato dept.

angry tapir writes "The Chinese city of Kunming has stopped 22 fake Apple stores from illegally using the company's iconic trademarks after Apple lodged a complaint with authorities. Kunming authorities found 20 unauthorized Apple resellers. Currently, 11 of those resellers are being investigated. Two other stores were discovered for related violations. Slashdot first discussed the mushrooming of fake Apple Stores in July."

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  1. Re:I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck arou by mwvdlee · · Score: 5, Interesting

    According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison), USA has more prisoners than china even in absolute numbers!
    Some quick calculations tell me USA actually imprissions over five times as many people as China per capita.

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