One suggestion I would have is to remove the word “knowingly” from the Copyright Act so that certainly the manufacturing and offering for sale of counterfeit goods, knowingly or unknowingly, should be a crime. That will give merchants an incentive to pay careful attention to the source of their product.
Obviously, when you get it down to mere possession, should the woman who buys the handbag in the flea market be labelled a criminal? I think that's probably open for debate. But if you stop the source and educate the public, you're going to stop the practice.
One thing that I want to say in response to this, though, is that I do believe it is theft, as I said in my opening statement. But you should consider why organized crime is moving into this. You can make a lot of money selling drugs in this country, but if you get caught for selling heroin to kids in a school, you're going to go before a judge and you're going to go to jail for a long time. Why do that if you can make more money on counterfeit products? So you're--