Law should protect consumers from fakes

RECENT MEDIA REPORTS show there was a chain manufacturing and selling fake condoms in North China's Shanxi province, and the products were sold nationwide until the police caught those responsible. Beijing News comments:

Compared with the past, the new chains producing and selling fake goods are better hidden and make better use of the internet. The manufacturers communicate with each other via the internet, while the sellers reportedly sell their fake goods both online and in bricks-and-mortar stores.

However, that's not the fault of the internet. The internet is open and there are always some illegal traders who seek to make illicit use of the openness. That's a necessary price that must be paid. What needs to be done is to strike at the crime.