Keith, Ebay has some strongly written policies on copyright infringement.
I would start with this link: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/questions/vero-ended-item.html My wife sells quite a few items on ebay and has seen this policy recently being used quite effectively! More information: http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/copyrights.html http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/replica-counterfeit.html --Randall Charlotte, NC ___________________________________________________________________________ << Heisenberg may have slept here >> "If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six sharpening my xe." --Abraham Lincoln ___________________________________________________________________________ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2006 4:11 PM Subject: [Biofuel] Are your free plans being sold on eBay? >I keep getting complaints about this guy who sells bits of the JtF > website on eBay. He's not the only one. > > Quite a few people have reported him and complained about him, but it > doesn't work, eBay won't cooperate, they're pretty much complicit. > Maybe he could be put out of action but it would be a lot of work, > and someone else would replace him soon enough. He doesn't actually > do us any direct injury and we're too busy to chase him, so we grin > and bear it. There's one born every minute, especially on eBay, and > probably one yllar17 born every minute too, but we're more interested > in the other 259 people born every minute. > > Deb Suran sent me further information, she's into hounding the guy, > and good luck to her. This is his name: > >>George Powell >>15596 Grape Creek Rd >>Danville, IL >>(217) 443-3934 > > Deb said this: > >>I'm writing to let you know than an eBay vendor, "yllar17," has been >>stealing free plans available on the internet, including yours (and >>mine), and selling them on eBay as his own original copyrighted >>work. For years. Here's what he currently has for sale at eBay, >>all stolen: >>http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZyllar17 >> >>How did I find you? eBay refused to kick him off their service >>permanently, and instead only briefly suspended him after I caught >>him selling our plans twice. So I purchased a copy of this thief's >>CD collection of all the plans he's selling, copied text from the >>PDF files on the CD into google, and found your website. In an >>afternoon of searching I found 10 websites that originally published >>some of the files he currently has for sale. I have attached the >>PDFs of your stolen plans from that CD to this e-mail. > > Four whole eBay pages of ripped off plans at the link. Check it out, > maybe you're there too. > > Best > > Keith > > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
