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the compliment industry pretends is a crime.
means an unauthorized copy of a branded product, made cheaper and usually worse, banking on the original's reputation.
from from boxing slang knock off meaning to finish something quickly and dirtily; by the 1960s it meant a fast, cheap copy made to cash in on someone else's real work.
legal linecopying design is often legal, copying the logo is not
industry sizecounterfeit trade estimated over 500 billion dollars yearly
canal streetnyc's counterfeit row operated openly for decades
fashion ironydesigners themselves rarely get copyright on clothing shapes