Beijing vendors against counterfeiting crackdown

Recently, the Chinese government decided to crack down on the sale of fake goods in Beijing's Silk Street Market. Little did they expect that the vendors would respond ferociously. Dozens of them have demonstrated actively against the lawyers of IntellecPro, a firm seeking to obtain the closure of their shops. The effort is part of an anti-counterfeiting deal struck between major international luxury good companies (Burberry, Gucci, Chanel, Louis Vuitton and Prada), who sued the market's operator. As a result of a court-mediated agreement, the operator has agreed to close down offending vendors. The agreement is monitored by IntellecPro, whose lawyers scour the market in search of evidence of fakes, which is then inserted into a notarized certificate.
The demonstrators' main argument, which is also being pressed through an independent countersuit, is that only the government can shut their businesses. They challenge the sufficienty of the notarized certificates as evidence. They invoke both their patriotism (presumably exemplified by contribution to Chinese growth), and the need to ensure their families' subsistence.
Some vendors have occupied the reception area of IntellecPro, generously filling it with food and litter. A saleswoman of one of the suspended stores beat up the market manager with her shoes (although did not throw her shoe at him).
The episode is interesting as an attempt to resist the Law, as imposed through semi-private regulation described by local lawyers as a "cooperation protocol". IntellecPro is obviously an easier target for the protesters than the Chinese government would be.