Are professional counterfeiters legal?

Professional counterfeiters violate the law, because the purpose of professional counterfeiters is to make money, and they deliberately constitute defective goods or services to demand compensation from merchants. If they extort from the merchants, the amount is large or they extort for many times, which may constitute extortion and is illegal and criminal.

Legal objectivity:

Article 274 of the Criminal Law stipulates that whoever extorts public or private property in a relatively large amount or repeatedly extorts it shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, criminal detention or public surveillance, and shall also or only be fined; If the amount is huge or there are other serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years and shall also be fined; If the amount is especially huge or there are other especially serious circumstances, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than 10 years and fined.