Counterfeit and copycat website evidence: Evidence of infringement the other side can check.
Counterfeit listings and copycat sites move domain the moment you notice them, and infringers know a screenshot is easy to dispute. Shorenet keeps a sealed record of what the infringing site delivered to your team, which the other side’s lawyers can test for themselves.
Exhibit 21 · sealed
Marketplace listing
market.example/item/448120
Designer-style trainers, £39. Ships from overseas.
- Captured 8 April 2026, 13:31 UTC
- SHA-256
308f32bf…138ddb55 - Timestamped by DigiCert (RFC 3161)
- Witnessed by the Shorenet relay
Verified · independently witnessed
Infringing content doesn’t wait
38%
Of web pages that existed in 2013 had disappeared ten years later.
Source: Pew Research Center, 2024Spot the fake
Two of the three screenshots on our demonstration page are fakes, each made in under a minute. An infringer’s lawyer will suggest yours is one too. Screenshots as evidence: can you spot the real one?
A Shorenet demonstration, not a statisticNo proof of source
Web archives record what the archiving software wrote down, with nothing inside that proves the content came from the infringer’s server.
See the comparisonTest purchases have a proof problem too
Brand protection teams capture listings, run test purchases and send notices at volume. When a case is contested, the listing is gone and the evidence is a screenshot or an archive the other side says they have never seen.
A Shorenet capture shows what the infringer’s site actually sent. It is witnessed in transit by our relay, which is independent of whoever captured it, and then sealed, so the other side’s expert can verify it themselves.
Where it fits
- Counterfeit listings. Marketplace listings, prices and seller details, as they were served.
- Copycat and lookalike sites. Sites trading on your brand, captured before they move domain.
- Trade mark and passing off. How an infringer presented goods to UK customers.
- Test purchases. The listing and the pages the site served during checkout, captured together.
Social media evidence: preserving a listing before it vanishes.
What it does not do
- It does not find infringements. It preserves evidence of what your team has found.
- It does not identify who runs a site. It proves what the site sent, not who is behind it.
- It cannot capture a page that has already gone. Capture early, not when the case is contested.
- We operate the relay. It is independent of your team, not of us, and the other side may test that. What trusting our relay means.
Capture it while it’s live.
Brand protection teams and IP practitioners can test it on real infringements through our evaluation programme, before general release.