The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
But now, counterfeiters have direct access to a world market for their goods and can make more money selling fakes than they could searching for the real thing.
The result? "Because the low-end antiquities market has been flooded with fakes that people buy for a fraction of what a genuine object would cost," writes Stanish, "the value of the real artifacts has gone down as well, making old-fashioned looting less lucrative."
The change in the market has even begun to creep upscale. As the counterfeiters get better, their wares have become good enough to fool even the experts, but the price still undercuts the real thing.
"Certainly, looting will continue," concludes Stanish. "But it is just conceivable that online commerce will actually put a lot of antiquities looters and traffickers out of business by the sheer volume of sales and quality of products that fool even the experts."
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