Guest travelerjim Posted November 4, 2010 Posted November 4, 2010 From Pattaya Times, this feature story about SPICE Magazine and an unauthorized "fake" Thai SPICE.... The real Thailand SPICE! magazine on the left and the copied version on the right. Note the Issue numbers, ISSN bar code almost exact name and layout make the counterfeit copy look like the next issue of the official magazine. http://pattaya-times.com/a6410-police-crack-down-on-distribution-of-bogus-magazine A police investigation in Pattaya has discovered that a leading entertainment magazine printed and produced in Pattaya and distributed all over Thailand has been illegally copied and distributed under a different, but very similar name. Police have caught the American ringleader in Pattaya and are searching in Chiang Mai for two Britons involved. A Filipino man in Pattaya who was selling ads for the counterfeit magazine is also being sought. Several Thai people involved have also been forthcoming to police inquiries. Thailand Spice has been the leading English language, gay-friendly entertainment magazine in Thailand for many years. A group of mostly foreigners produced an almost exact copy and called it "Thai Spice" and apparently tried to pass it off as the original to fool advertisers and readers and make money from their crime. American national, Wayne Frederick Watson, Jr., age 62, who is also called "Santa" because of his white beard and long, white hair, wire-rimmed spectacles, pot-belly and jovial manner seemingly tricked the owners of the hugely popular Spice magazine by making a written agreement to be an agent and to print the magazine as an agent for 36-monthly issues in order to get proprietary graphic files and the Thailand Spice magazine Quote
Guest Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 OK. I am daft. How did they make money on this? I have advertised in the magazine before and paid them via bank they sent me via e-mail. Who was paying them? Also, isn't the owner of the magazine the same owner of the website you linked to? If so, has this been reported in other news organizations? Lastly, how was money made on this? Quote
KhorTose Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 OK. I am daft. How did they make money on this? I have advertised in the magazine before and paid them via bank they sent me via e-mail. Who was paying them? Also, isn't the owner of the magazine the same owner of the website you linked to? If so, has this been reported in other news organizations? Lastly, how was money made on this? This whole article sounds more like a business dispute then reality. I know one of the CM people the BIB is suppose to be looking for and he has been working for spice for a long time. Something is not right or not being reported correctly. I will be very surprised if the follow-up story (assuming there will be one) is anything close to this. Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 I posted a comment on this thread yesterday and someone responded to it. Now, both posts are gone. What happened? Quote
TotallyOz Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 I posted a comment on this thread yesterday and someone responded to it. Now, both posts are gone. What happened? There was no post on this thread from you yesterday and no reply. Perhaps you posted the comment on another site? Quote
Guest lvdkeyes Posted November 5, 2010 Posted November 5, 2010 OMG!!! Another senior moment. Sorry. Quote
Guest JBee Posted November 17, 2010 Posted November 17, 2010 This whole article sounds more like a business dispute then reality. I know one of the CM people the BIB is suppose to be looking for and he has been working for spice for a long time. Something is not right or not being reported correctly. I will be very surprised if the follow-up story (assuming there will be one) is anything close to this. The story as written does not sound like the entire story. and no follow up yet! Quote
2lz2p Posted November 18, 2010 Posted November 18, 2010 The Pattaya Times is a bi-weekly publication controlled by an individual who became either a partner with the former publisher of Spice or bought the magazine and retained the former publisher to work for him. He published it for a while - I don't know details, but the rumor mill is they had a falling out. So, the article probably is a business dispute - the individual who controls the Pattaya Times has, in the past, printed similar articles regarding other individuals that he had some prior problems with. Quote
