Counterfeits on dark markets: a measurement between Jan-2014 and Sep-2015
Abstract Counterfeits harm consumers, governments, and intellectual property holders.They accounted for 3.3% of worldwide trades in 2016, having an estimated value of $509 billion in the same year.Estimations in the literature are mostly based on border seizures, but in this paper, we examined openly labeled counterfeits on darknet markets, which a