Pirated Amiga software on ebay

[fishy_fiz]

I admit, I pirated my share of amiga software when I was a younger man, but people who sell other peoples hard work for a profit of thier own are in my opinion scum of the Earth, even if that software is old. Im sure there's many similar items all over the world, but I stumbled across this while browsing ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Amiga-Emulator-Games-Collection-36GB-9-DVD-ROMS-/270629632672?pt=AU_Computers_Vintage&hash=item3f02c87aa0
What I find quite frustrating is that even though Ive reported it ebay have done nothing about it. Because of this Ive sent a message to the seller warning him that if he doesnt cease to sell these items I will contact companies like Virgin, Lucas Arts, Gremlin, and so on (the bigger name compaines who's software is being pirated and sold). I will actually do this if need be, but I was wondering/hoping that other people here may share my dislike of these sorts of people and also send reports to ebay. Hopefully they'll listen with a few more complaints (and being that my ebay name obviously implies my love for the amiga they may easily shrug my report off, thinking me a nutcase

Thanks for listening, and hopefully some of you will take the time to help me out here by sending a report to ebay.
Kind regards.

[fishy_fiz]

To the sellers credit he has responded to my message fairly politely. He's either now playing ignorant due to my message in regards to what he's selling, or his claim of simply wanting to sell a compilation of retro amiga gear (he says he's an amiga fan and that was his motivation) is true. Originally I wanted to crucify him for his actions, but due to his response I now just want this particular auction to stop. Amiga fan or not I just cant get past the idea of people making money from others work (I've found some of my own work for sale without permission, which I guess is where this stems from).

@Crom00
I mostly agree with you here and in fact might try to use this as motivation to get permission to package some Amiga classics legally.... might take some time and effort, but could be a worthwhile, and interesting endevour.

[fishy_fiz]

"Due to unforseen circumstances this listing will not be relisted."  WTF??  Have any of you contacted the seller and threatened his family or something?  Or is this the seller's way of trying to get a mad rush of buyers?

It may be because of my message to him, in which I simply suggested he remove the item due to it's illegal nature, and that if he didnt I'd be informing the copyright holders (well, words to that effect). It was all fairly diplomatic from both ends though. To be honest I actually feel a bit bad about it, from my limited contact he seemed a decent enough guy, but at the end of the day these sort of sales still irk me.... life holds no exceptions just because someone may not be an asshole.

[fishy_fiz]

Seems that people have too much spare time... How many of the whiners about that auction have never pirated anything?. For fucks sake, these are games that no longer sells.

Haha... and yet you took the time to respond in the most complaining tone of anyone yet. For the most part it's been a pretty reasonable conversation/thread thus far until you came along.  Additionally the very 1st post started with me saying Ive pirated material before. Also some of the games have recently been re-released (Monkey Island games for example), so I suspect the copyright holders might be interested.

[fishy_fiz]

Incidently the packages also appear to contain kickstart images and Workbench3.x. As for the analogy that people who sell ppc cards for more than thier initial value, that's a completely offbase suggestion. A truer analogy would be people who steal ppc cards and sell them. The qualm isnt with pirating (although personally I get more enjoyment these days out of owning the physical product/box/manuals/etc.), its to do with people making money from other peoples work, and to a smaller extent the fact that ebay allow this practice. Anyone who disagrees is free to send me thier wage.