Pirated Amiga software on ebay

[orb85750]

I just got off the phone with eBay and they told me that the auction would be removed.  Let's see if it happens and if it resurfaces again.

[orb85750]

I just got off the phone with eBay and they told me that the auction would be removed.  Let's see if it happens and if it resurfaces again.

And if it's not removed, Plan B is to buy and then dispute the PayPal transaction due to receipt of copies, not originals, of copyrighted software -- along with very negative feedback to the seller, of course.  I would do it, but the seller ships only to Australia and I'm in the US.

EDIT: Other identical auction by seller ship to Europe as well as Australia.

[orb85750]

If the copyrights owners can't be bothered at this point ,I say people who get all exercised about "pirating" of old,long abandoned software need to "get a life"!

Some no doubt are incensed by the "loss in value" of their"extemely rare,original NIB" software collections;tough!

All that high-priced software sitting in unopened boxes ,and who gets to enjoy it?You have to USE the item for full enjoyment.Are some Amigans like the secret collector who has works of art in a vault where no one can enjoy them?

Copyrights and patents should never have been extended to the current ridiculous span and even many software patents should never have been granted in the first place.If you can't market and profit from  the work in the first 14 or 28 years (as in previous versions of the laws)then let society benefit by public domain.

No work was created in a vacuum ,everyone builds on that which came before him.

Please let me know when you produce something useful with great effort so that I may steal it from you to sell for my own profit.  Thanks.  (Do all the copyright holders know that some eBay seller is making money by reproducing their stuff?  Doubtful given the several thousand titles.)

[orb85750]

"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?

[orb85750]

From an ethical standpoint, it's wrong. Realistically though, who cares.

Apparently eBay cares enough to remove the auction from their website.

[orb85750]

Apparently ebay doesn't & neither do all the other folk selling original Amiga software right now...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Ultimate-Amiga-Games-PC-DVD-ROMS-A500-A600-A1200-/160477775935?pt=UK_VintageComputing_RL&hash=item255d38883f#ht_5256wt_1115

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEGA-MEGADRIVE-C64-ZX-SPECTRUM-AMIGA-PC-ENGINE-M-S-/230522205865?pt=UK_VideoGames_VideoGameConsoles_VideoGameConsoles&hash=item35ac31b6a9#ht_1481wt_1115

eBay relies on their users to report violations.  They don't waste valuable employee hours scouring millions of auctions for possible cases of copyright infringement.  LOL!