A few weeks ago, while walking in the center of my city, I noticed some big billboards - "Buying counterfeit products is against the law". Owh really ... impressive psychology. So, according to the Italian smart-asses who placed the billboards (and implicitly made this imbecile law), it is my fault if I am not asking for the certificate of originality, or however such a thing might be called. Do they punish the one who sells the fake as original? And if they sanction the seller, why not the producer? I just can't wait to see the Carabinieri writing the fines for a zillion Chinese workers producing Adibas and Pansoanic...
Even worse, according to the same way of thinking, nobody is allowed to desire counterfeited products; you want to impress your neighbour with your new fake Panerai - bang, a fine. You can't even want to show off, because it is against the law to buy the counterfeit products. Then why on Earth are they exposing a copy of David in Piaza Signoria and not the original? Why would they keep the original in a museum and let you see a counterfeit product unless you pay for the ticket and visit the museum? Why can they use the copies and the rest of us can't? Well, it is simple - because in Italy common sense logic is mainly in the eye of the beholder;).
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