eBay plays ignorant.

How does eBay get away with this or do they?

For example “Juice Newton” has an album call “Dirty Looks.” It has NEVER been on CD anywhere. Yet somone is selling a CD of it. This is obviously a CDR. Which is illegal.

But eBay says they don’t know it is a CDR unless the seller says so.

So thus the auction goes on.

Though somewhat different wasn’t this basically NAPSTER’s argument, we provide a service. If they do something wrong with it, it isn’t our fault.

Ebay can’t watch over the thousands of items up for sale. How do you know all that stuff isn’t stolen? BTW Any bids on my Juice Newton CD? Just joshin.

I would guess that e-bay might remove the item if someone complains.

This is how it happens when people sell fakes of some items, or things that are offensive, etc.

I find e-bay to be pretty responsible given the enormous number of items offered.

Of course, YMMV.

Since ticket scalping is generally illegal, Ebay will not allow people to sell, for example, NBA playoff tickets on their site. Check it out though. People will sell a Dallas Mavericks T-shirt with starting bids of $200. The seller gets a free pair of playoff tickets with the purchase of the T-shirt.

Haj

Even if people complain, it probably won’t be removed. After all, it might be an import copy from overseas or something for all we/they know. Just my WAG, but unless the actual record label that Juice is on says anything, the auction will probably go on without incident.

Oh, yes they would cancel the auction…

They get around 100,000 new auctions per day & they whine that they can’t check them all, but they coul dhire more staff.

People write safeharbor@ebay & boing, there goes the auction.

This is just not he case, handy. I sell collectible laserdiscs on ebay which are not available on VHS. Lately they have been showing up on bootleg VHS tapes. Numerous times I have notified SafeHarbor, and they claim they cannot enforce copyright infringement unless the copyright holder complains.

From a recent communication from SafeHarbor:

I wanted to buy a used copy of QuarkXPress from eBay.

No such thing.

Rather, nearly all of the copies of Quark for sale (excluding new-in-box versions) are all CDRs of the software. I asked a seller point-blank how he could get away with this obvious piracy, and he said that he was simply offering a backup copy of the software to Quark owners who had lost their own discs.

Sure. I didn’t notice him requesting serial numbers from those “owners,” though.

I like to fool around with a program called Poser. It’s a 3D art program which gives you people that you can pose and dress and render images. When I wanted to get Poser 4 I looked on E-bay to see if anyone had a used copy. I found one and bought it for a cheap price. Ithought it was cheap because they didn’t have the manual. I didn’t care because the manual is on the disk and I could print it out at work and put in a binder. Not only was it a copy of Poser 4 but they threw in Bryce 4 and two other programs. I was a little miffed at now being part of a crime but I still use the programs.

EBay has to deal with too many loopholes regarding copyright infringement. I occassionally take CDs from my radio station’s discard bin and give them a listen. Afterwards if I don’t like them I’ll sell them on EBay. If the CD is a promotional disc (and therefore can’t be sold legally), I’ll just offer to sell the jewel case for $4 and toss in the CD and liner notes for free.

Another local radio station has the sale itself - except it tags the CDs with ‘donation’ stickers… you donate $2 to the radio station and get the honour of taking home one of the discards in the $2 bin.

FD.

Fear Itself, maybe they changed their policy so they won’t have to check all those illegal auctions. They do make money on each sale you know?

toodspittle, wish I new sooner we had a copy of QuarkExpress 3.3 for a mac in out thrift shop.

Actually, e-bay regularly pulls boot-leg items off. Why do I know? um, well…I bought this pencil one time, and it came with… Anyway, if someone complains that whatever is being bid on is not legit, it be pulled. It took me a while to buy a pencil like that.