internet - Yahoo and Alibaba go for clash on IPR

Between all the cheers for the Yahoo-Alibaba deal this remarkable piece showed up in Forbes, attacking Alibaba's reputation regarding intellectual property rights, called 'Alibaba's Thieves threathen Yahoo'.
It points out that at least a number of the last year 4 billion US dollars in revenue will have come from counterfeits. Not very shocking for people living in China, but still shocking for the average Americans. Might cause a nice cultural and then legal clash.

Most of the products listed on Alibaba appear legitimate, but anticounterfeit groups have repeatedly documented sales on the Web site of fake goods posing as authentic American products.
A February report by the International AntiCounterfeiting Coalition, an alliance of more than 60 American brand owners, cited offers on Alibaba for counterfeit cigarettes "98% close to original." And a quick search on the Web site turns up several products claiming to be "imitation famous."

This is going to be fun.