prove me wrong

gromituk

Wig wrote:

Fair enuff, but "little" is right, I've never seen [MSE's abuse reporting button] before, hardly very conspicuous.

Maybe you haven't, but that's not the point. It's there, so it's a one-stop abuse reporting system. In fact, it should not be too conspicuous because it would clutter up the page and encourage abuse itself.

Wig

hmmmph, it's Bloomsbury who run the copyright in UK

Same email just sent to Christopher Little.

Listings still on Ebay so they blatently don't care about counterfeit items being sold on their network.

freebie_junkie

hi, when it comes to intellectual property you can copy something that you have paid for as many times as you like but only for yourself. if you then go on to try and make money from it, you are making money someone elses intellectual property and therefore breaking the law.

seanparkin

I for one would like to see these b**tards strung up.

My fiance bought me a couple of dvds off ebay for christmas. Being the very girly, unknowledgable about these things kind of person she is, she didn't spot the fact they were counterfeit when they arrived. Needless to say I wasn't that happy with the people that sold them to her!

Spikey_2

seanparkin wrote:

I for one would like to see these b**tards strung up.

My fiance bought me a couple of dvds off ebay for christmas. Being the very girly, unknowledgable about these things kind of person she is, she didn't spot the fact they were counterfeit when they arrived. Needless to say I wasn't that happy with the people that sold them to her!

How do you stop a fake?

scottishchick27

I bought a couple of dvd interactive games off of ebay for xmas. Glad I didn't pay the full whack for them as they are c***. Would have been really unimpressed if I'd paid fiftenn quid for them.
I got an email from ebay a couple of weeks after I purchased one of them telling me the seller had been unregistered and not to proceed with the transaction. Bit late seeing as I had had the game for over a week.

gromituk

Well they haven't removed any listings yet - surprise, surprise.

Five listings at the moment - all of them pirated audio books.

gromituk

Perhaps someone could write a Firefox extension to allow one-click reporting of these things? You know - a right-click menu which would allow you to select the infringement category and it would do the rest for you!

Wig

Spikey wrote:

How do you stop a fake?

I presume you mean spot a fake..........

On a very basic level if the dvd has no printed lable, coloured inks on the top side it could be a fake. If the paper jacket looks faded and matt instead of sharp, glossy and bright colours it's prolly a fake. The underside of the disc should look uniform colour, A fake might show a ring of a different hue where the writer "wrote" onto the disc. And the disc itself might say somewhere on it DVD-R DVD-RW or DVD+R, +RW, which would be a fake for sure.

But I dare say the fakes from China probably look pretty amazing, though I have never seen one, it's what I would expect to see from that country.

Wig

freebie_junkie wrote:

hi, when it comes to intellectual property you can copy something that you have paid for as many times as you like but only for yourself. if you then go on to try and make money from it, you are making money someone elses intellectual property and therefore breaking the law.

Hi read nightswimmers posts above, I thought so too, but it seems the 1988 act has changed all that. except for software in certain applications.

It is however, as you rightly say definately illegal to go around selling the copies that you make.