I have seen the same images – with the factory being in China

I have seen the same images – with the factory being in China

I am sure those guys are not Chinese

and I have seen same pics with the claim “It happens only in India”

So any idea what companies like PepsiCo and others do when then see things like this on the internet? I mean, do they expend company assets to track these operations down? Or are these setups small and say easy to move like a “guerrilla” tactic?

In the US you can find various fraudulent goods however the quantity and variety is limited as most companies crack down pretty hard on such criminals. I know that software giants like Microsoft have been trying to stop piracy in China and India. Does any of you have any further details? Do you hear alot in the news about overseas firms breaking up bootleg operations? Or do you simply walk down the market streets continue to buy fake Pepsi, bootleg DVDs, etc.?

From a socio-economic standpoint my fundamental premise is that (for example): Average Indian can not afford to purchase full honest priced copy of Microsoft Windows…so his/her ethical sense can be “bent” slightly to allow casual purchase of bootleg copy instead. Am I wrong? Or partially right? Any details to better understand would be greatly appreciated.

The above scenario occurs quite a bit in the US, but instead of bootleg copies of Windows, US households use peer-to-peer technology to casually take copies of their favorite songs off the internet without paying for them. So in the previous paragraph I’m trying to understand if the “bending” of our ethics transcends our geographic distances, and is more a manifest of human nature than anything else.