KNOW THE FAKES - COUNTERFEIT
Counterfeit copies of music are copied (the inlay and the disc) and packaged to resemble the legitimate copy (original) as closely as possible. The original producer's trademarks and logos are often reproduced in order to mislead the consumer into believing that they are buying a legitimate product, for instance, the latest Zola album. Counterfeit copies were in the past replicated (the music in the form of lands and pits pressed into the plastic) in mass quantities in rogue manufacturing plants in the East. Today, as CD and DVD writers are so cheap, they are duplicated (written by computer or stack burners) locally. The same applies to the printing on the inlay, cassette and disc.
