China Cracks Down On Fake Apple Stores

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."

Comments

Re:I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck arou

[mattventura]

I'm guessing that it's because Apple uses China for their manufacturing, and it would hurt the Chinese economy if they were to take their business elsewhere.

Re:I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck arou

[ColdWetDog]

And I'm guessing that they're just paying lip service to Apple, copyrights, patents and the like. And as soon as the store owners start paying the right people, it will be business as usual (again).

Re:I hope Apple knows that China doesn't fuck arou

[mwvdlee]

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.