MANILA, Philippines — The Optical Media Board (OMB) on Thursday flagged the sale of thousands of counterfeit software, games and pirated movies on online shopping platforms. Moving onto another slide, the OMB official showed senators an item for a “cracked” Abobe Photoshop software which is being sold for as low as P18. ‘Better mousetrap’Lazada Philippines CEO Raymond Alimurung told the Senate committee that the company has an “intellectual property portal” that allows legitimate brand owners to flag counterfeit items and notify Lazada. He also stressed that Lazada is doing its best to address problems of unauthorized sale of such products on its platform. Jaimmie Hans-Segovia said the e-commerce site also has a mechanism to address counterfeit items.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 03, 2020 12:00 UTC