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From the Ted Talk by Alastair Gray: How fake handbags fund terrorism and organized crime

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Why go through all that trouble? Well, maybe counterfeiting is a victimless crime? These big companies, they make enough money, so if anything, critoiutefneng is just a free form of advertising, right? And csnueorms believe just that — that the buying and selling of fakes is not that big a deal. But I'm here to tell you that that is just not true. What the tourist on hiadoly doesn't see about those fake handbags is they may well have been stitched together by a child who was trafficked away from her family, and what the car repair shop owner doesn't realize about those fake brake pads is they may well be lining the pockets of an oeiargznd crime gang ivlneovd in drugs and prostitution. And while those two things are hlroribe to think about, it gets much worse, because counterfeiting is even funding triroresm. Let that sink in for a moment.

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Why go through all that trouble? Well, maybe counterfeiting is a victimless crime? These big companies, they make enough money, so if anything, ______________ is just a free form of advertising, right? And _________ believe just that — that the buying and selling of fakes is not that big a deal. But I'm here to tell you that that is just not true. What the tourist on _______ doesn't see about those fake handbags is they may well have been stitched together by a child who was trafficked away from her family, and what the car repair shop owner doesn't realize about those fake brake pads is they may well be lining the pockets of an _________ crime gang ________ in drugs and prostitution. And while those two things are ________ to think about, it gets much worse, because counterfeiting is even funding _________. Let that sink in for a moment.

Solution

  1. terrorism
  2. organized
  3. holiday
  4. consumers
  5. horrible
  6. involved
  7. counterfeiting

Original Text

Why go through all that trouble? Well, maybe counterfeiting is a victimless crime? These big companies, they make enough money, so if anything, counterfeiting is just a free form of advertising, right? And consumers believe just that — that the buying and selling of fakes is not that big a deal. But I'm here to tell you that that is just not true. What the tourist on holiday doesn't see about those fake handbags is they may well have been stitched together by a child who was trafficked away from her family, and what the car repair shop owner doesn't realize about those fake brake pads is they may well be lining the pockets of an organized crime gang involved in drugs and prostitution. And while those two things are horrible to think about, it gets much worse, because counterfeiting is even funding terrorism. Let that sink in for a moment.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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selling fakes 3
fake car 3
polo shirts 2
organized crime 2
percent selling 2
fake trainers 2
pirate music 2
music cds 2
love genuine 2

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pirate music cds 2

Important Words

  1. advertising
  2. big
  3. brake
  4. buying
  5. car
  6. child
  7. companies
  8. consumers
  9. counterfeiting
  10. crime
  11. deal
  12. drugs
  13. fake
  14. fakes
  15. family
  16. form
  17. free
  18. funding
  19. gang
  20. handbags
  21. holiday
  22. horrible
  23. involved
  24. lining
  25. moment
  26. money
  27. organized
  28. owner
  29. pads
  30. pockets
  31. prostitution
  32. realize
  33. repair
  34. selling
  35. shop
  36. sink
  37. stitched
  38. terrorism
  39. tourist
  40. trafficked
  41. trouble
  42. true
  43. victimless
  44. worse