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Old 09-05-2007, 01:04 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Precisely. But you need to take them down whoever points them out, not insist on it being someone with "properly constituted authority", which was eBay's approach. The way it worked with eBay, by the time you'd jumped through all the hoops they put in your way, the auction was over. I speak from personal experience, as a software author who's frequently seen his software illegally copied and sold on eBay.
That's problematic, too.

"Properly constituted authority", in the form of copyright holder or authorized agent is reasonable evidence that the work in question is pirated. Complaints by others are not, and you must either take it down regardless, and have problems if it wasn't infringing, or do the research to determine whether the complaint was valid.

I suspect eBay was trying to avoid the latter.
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