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by wly_cdgr 1912 days ago
Don't confuse reason and excuse

Concern about counterfeiting just served as a usefully palatable justification for introducing the tracking technologies. After that, it's easy. All you have to do is let some small to medium counterfeiters continue to operate so the justification continues to look reasonable. Heck you can even do your more or less best to try to catch them all, since you can be confident you won't ever completely succeed

The worst damage crime does isn't direct. The real damage is the PR cover it provides for government repression