Even simpler: If you don't want your stuff counterfeited, don't outsource it, period. Unless the company buys a factory in some cheap labor country and sends s

Even simpler: If you don't want your stuff counterfeited, don't outsource it, period. Unless the company buys a factory in some cheap labor country and sends some of their employees over to "manage" (police) the foreign workers, then there is always going to be a risk of loss with being so removed from the outsourced production. (Then again, there's no guarantee the outsourced workers are going to get treated any better by foreign managers - look up the history of United Fruit Company for an example.) Counterfeiting comes with the territory of using cheap labor/production in order to get more profit into the pockets of those outsourcing the business. That's not to say counterfeiting isn't wrong. However, the validity of "wrong" becomes more of a gray area depending on which party you ask. Each party has their own motivations and those motivations have different socioeconomic impacts and ethical implications.