John Grisham Camino Island Thievery - Even "NICE PEOPLE" Do it

The Internet has altered the meaning of certain words.

"STEALING" now means "SHARING."

Here's some Brit who figures owning a book means it can be "SHARED." And, well, why not SOLD, too?

"Pip pip, Cheerio. Just making a few copies. Don't get your knickers in a twist. I'm ENTITLED, you know. I bought the book, so it's MINE to do with as I please."

People think this way now. The Internet has conditioned people to believe illegal downloads are a part of life, and copyright doesn't exist, really. Not when you own a copy. Then you have the right to copy it. See?

"Tosh! Go on, this isn't illegal at all. I see people do it on EBAY all the time. Why shouldn't I?"

"Who care? Whatever we got we SHARE. Just give me a few quid for my trouble. Writing a two line AD is hard work! And you must pay me for my time in uploading a link and sending it. And EBAY and PAYPAL want their cut of about 82 cents, so I clear three dollars. Seems fair to ME."

"I have only a few books I bought, so I'm making copies to recoup my investment. That seems fair to ME."

"Did I say a I bought the books? Oh. Well, IF I'M BEING HONEST, I downloaded them off a forum. But every now and then I fancy a packet of crisps and a good dark beer. I'm doing no harm."

"And I only have THREE titles for sale on eBay. At the moment. It's a fine life."

Mmmm, I made $450 off duping ONE BOOK. Thank you EBAY, Bret Contreras & Kellie Davis?

Here's an Aussie who has put $6 into the pouch for EVERY BOOTLEG sale of a fitness book.

Did this seller actually WRITE the book?

Of course not. That's too hard. BOOTLEGGING ON EBAY IS EASY.

Do the math. 75 copies at $6 each. That's $450 profit for DOING NOTHING. Except STEALING.

On behalf of the parasite Ebay bootlegger: "Thank you, Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis. For supplying the EASY MONEY."

Many authors get NO advance.

Many authors pay a company to hoist their eBook to Amazon where they PRAY to break even at least.

Many authors try and sell their eBook for a modest $3.99 or $5.99 because competition and piracy are so great.

HERE is an EBAY BOOTLEGGER who makes $6.00 per book without the effort of writing more than a paragraph about how the book will be sent by email.

Too bad Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis.

File it under "HOW I WAS ROBBED OF $450 from ONE eBay seller in a few weeks."

How many authors are being robbed by EBAY and PAYPAL? Hundreds? Thousands? For how much money? Hundreds? THOUSANDS?

An author is lucky to get $2 off a $9.95 Amazon Kindle eBook sale.

That author would be lucky to make the same amount off the hardcover price.

Instead of $2.00 this EBAY BOOTLEGGER gets $6 for doing nothing.

Has this AUSSIE EBAY BOOTLEGGER with $450 in the pouch done more damage? Yes.

The seller has circumvented dozens of readers who WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE BOOK legitimately.

The copies sold end up being copied and copied, to the point where Christ knows how many hundreds of bootlegs have been "Shared" with NO money going to the authors.

Authors accept that libraries "share" books. The trade-off is they BUY hundreds of copies. Libraries all over the country BUY the copies, so that's guaranteed sales. This EBAY bootlegging is nothing but a LOSS. A DEAD LOSS.

Piracy on eBAY is a massive loss. It hurts authors and discourages them from writing more books. Publishers have to pay less advances. Bookstores continue to go under. Libraries shorten their hours and disappear. PIRACY HURTS.

Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis, your publisher either doesn't care about you, or doesn't know eBay is a den of thieves, or maybe they've hired a company that doesn't know how to find BOOTLEGS ON EBAY.

So, Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis, you've lost hundreds of dollars thanks to THIS seller alone.

THIS parasite has figured Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis can be had. Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis put in all that hard work so SOMEBODY ELSE can get the royalties.

Too bad Bret Contreras and Kellie Davis.

Ebay Pirates Even Spit on Sassy Ben, the Nebraska Senator

What? Bootleg a United States Senator?

Sure, why not? Just stick a little caveat on your eBay ad:

"I am the Author, the Copyright holder, or an Authorized Reseller, or this item is in the Public Domain. This ad complies with all Rules and Regulations."

That's what a scumbag in Georgia is doing. Georgia is one of the stinkiest armpits in America when it comes to eBay piracy. Florida jerks make up the other stinky armpit.

This is EBAY ad 232379988985 from aci1sales. AND...using a second ID, 201955770336 from shippablemedia.

Both accounts, of course, offer 30 or 40 bootlegs, screwing even MORE authors.

Thing is, if Senator Sasse bothered to send in a VeRo complaint, this seller MIGHT be on notice to CEASE AND DESIST. Especially since it might also be possible (not probable) that Senator Sasse might want to send a letter to eBay advising them to NOT allow ANY caveats of this type, and when red-flagged, that a seller should produce THE LICENSING AGREEMENT.

Simple?

Why let some redneck scum steal from authors? WHY?

AND...

WHY allow this? America has copyright laws. Why should EBAY and PAYPAL not help enforce these laws? Because they hide behind the dirty skirt with DMCA scrawled on it? DMCA means that these sites that make millions a day, are "just venues" and can't possibly police themselves OR know a violation when it's reported. They will ONLY act if a rights owner happens to see the violation, jump through some hoops, and report it. They will NOT and ARE not obliged to ask an obvious bootlegging swine for a licensing agreement to back up that bullshit about "I own re-sale rights OR this is public domain."

Senator Sasse, virtually unknown till he went on Bill Maher's show, claimed he had no idea Maher's line about "House Nigga" was offensive, and after the fact, Tweeted about how he regretted not telling Bill how outrageous, racist, and reprehensible the remark was.

Mr. Sasse IS busy Tweeting most every day. Like:

I'm not saying that a U.S. Senator shouldn't waste time on Twitter. He might even be posting after hours. Or during those long vacations and time-outs that politicians require so often.

The guy can joke about how his son got a lesson in beekeeping.

Senator Sasse can even pretend he's Bill Maher, and go for laughs with a photo caption. Imagine the Beekeeper saying to the kid....:

And he can double-down on the yocks by, tongue-in-cheek, pretending the bald beekeeper is actually Ron Howard. HA!

But piracy is no joke.

Authors are hurting. Libraries are closing. Publishers are merging to stay above water.

It might get to the point where publishers can't afford to waste their money giving big advances to politicians or celebrities, just so they can boast about having famous names on their roster.

Imagine that: "Hmmm, should we pay a small fortune to this Senator from Nebraska for some over-long editorial nobody will buy? Just so we can have his name on our list? We could pay and nurture and encourage 20 good writers for what we're paying this guy..." And the answer comes back, "The piracy on the Internet is killing us. Give this guy a $500 offer. Most authors will take anything, especially on publish-or-perish vanity stuff from politicians."

Let's not get to the point where THAT happens.

Let's have some stronger DMCA laws, and more authors and publishers putting the heat on eBAY and PAYPAL by filing DMCA's.

Book publishers in America NEED SUPPORT.

ANY Author can be a Bootleg Victim on EBAY

Well, well, Ebay, where they are all like big fat Sgt. Schultz from "Hogan's Heroes."

They know nnnrnnnnuthing. Until it's point out. By somebody who filled out forms and jumped through all their hoops.

ANY BOOK. Heh heh.

If you're an author, and your book is selling in a Kindle or Nook version, it's quite likely it's been leaked to an Internet torrent or to forums.

The good news is that torrents and forums are sneaky places that most people know little about.

The bad news is most people know EBAY, and that it's a good place to find a cheap new or used copy of a book. A bidder types in a name, sees "digital version" or "ebook" after the title, reads "I am a licensed reseller," and buys.

Ebay is so eager for sales, they throw ads all over their pages, and ads like THIS one instantly turn up, letting a bidder know that just about ANY book is fair game.

There are quite a few weasels like this, almost all of them BRITISH, who play this game. See the entry below.

Ah, but THIS dealer, who claims to be located in the United Kingdom, is actually in LATVIA:

Paying attention? Did you note the gMail address of this bastard? A good VeRO rep pays attention. (Penguin/Random House doesn't have a VeRO rep at all do they? Do they have a blind one?).

Note that the zapizx G MAIL address used by the seller SUERTEMAN, turns up in the seller ID of ZAPIZX888, ANOTHER bootlegger. Or rather, the SAME creep with another account:

What a surprise, eBay and PayPal allow a seller multiple accounts to commit the same FRAUD.

They have been known to allow the same prick (in Florida, Sri Lanka, U.K., Latvia, anywhere) to have a whole bunch of accounts all selling the same items. After takedown after takedown after takedown, a seller might get suspended....but only under ONE account. The others remain! Ebay supposedly does not allow a suspended seller to have a second account, especially one selling the same item. But who do you report this to? The VeRO program says they are not in charge of suspensions, just removing specific auctions. They will NOT give out the email address of whoever is in charge of suspensions.

If you call eBay's phone support, you'll get somebody in Latvia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia...who the hell knows where...and that person will say "Not to worry, I will forward this!" And nothing happens. Ask them if they know where they are forwarding it, and if they know the NAME of the person, and they get evasive. "Not to worry...I understand...Not to worry...I will forward this!"

Yes, a seller who is obviously breaking the law not only doesn't have to worry about an eBAY rep looking through auctions to find him, he doesn't have to worry if he's caught over and over, or is breaking eBay's rules on a suspended seller having another identity. Or PayPal rules on fraud.

Why do some of these foreign swine pretend to be in the UK or USA?

If this Slime put down "LATVIA" for item location, it would be easier for a VeRO rep to red-flag him as a bootlegger. Also, it might lose sales, since some bidders don't trust getting an item by mail from LATVIA.

What deals these parasites have: for only GBP 5.99 ($7.65 if you're ordering from the United States) you can get EVERY George R.R. Martin book, or Rowling, or pudgy E.L. James, or Christine Feehan or anyone else. Every Agatha Christie? Sure.

People buy an item like this, thinking the "GNP" is somehow real, and these things aren't bootlegs that cheat the authors, and they're set for months, if not a year. That's a year of NOT buying a real copy of a book and helping an author or the economy or a book store. Or keeping a library open.

Instead, the money goes into the greedy pocket of a Latvian bastard, PAYPAL and EBAY.

Why should PAYPAL and EBAY be eager to NOT make a percentage of a sale? That's why they make it so difficult to report anything, and why they happily hide behind the filthy skirt of the DMCA law, which says they don't even HAVE to have ONE employee monitoring crap like this.

Yes, the Latvian maggot has an alias, too:

But there's plenty more of these cheap nickel and dime parasites. Here's another guy ready to screw authors like hundreds of men screwed his whore mother before he crawled out of her.

Notice how this ad shows people with their arms in the air, holding up COPYRIGHT BOOKS as if they're NOT copyrighted and should be copied off for pennies?

To me, that picture looks close to a LYNCHING photo, where the angry villagers wave their pitchforks and the MOB rules.

It looks like rally in a Communist Square, where authors are told to get to a Gulag if they don't work for the good of the people and renounce Capitalist notions like getting paid for every book sold.

It's very much like the way obnoxious Internet bullies constantly get new fake identities to hoist bootlegs to forums and torrents while screaming "Freedom of Speech...music, movies and books should be FREE FOR ALL."

The creeps who grab every book and shrug that they have every right to distribute whatever they want, should take the locks off the doors, and let their neighbors re-distribute every possession they own.

"I'm a GNU" - The obnoxious selfish stupid BRITISH TWIT PARASITES

Only from ENGLAND.

It's BRITISH sellers on EBAY who offer ads, available not just via eBay.co.uk but to all bidders worldwide, to SCREW authors and turn them into lackeys and slaves, like they did when they invaded Africa and India.

Yes, as disgusting as the Sri Lankan pigs are, as repulsive as the redneck Georgia jackasses are, leave it to the BRITISH to be absolutely pompous bastards when it comes to bootlegging.

ONLY the Brits DARE to insist that their thievery is OK because of the "GNU" or, get this, because "MY ITEMS…HAVE BEEN COLLECTED AND COMPILED BY ME”

Well, LAH DEE DAH.

Here are examples of what's going on with these BRIT-SHITS.

Some of their crap is even "sponsored" on eBay, meaning that when you accidentally come across some little criminal offering epub and mobi and kindle, you'll see an ad urging you to check out the EVEN BIGGER and more pretentious and nasty BRITISH thieves.

LIKE THESE WORTHIES:

These maggot-like BRIT-SHITS are competing with each other, swiping eBooks off torrents run by Russian and Swedish thugs, and boring them to DVDs.

They used to offer "The Times Best Seller List" for 10 pounds. Then it became "Here's 10,000 ebooks" for 10 pounds. Now it's 50,000 ebooks, and for LESS than the price of buying ONE NEW HARDCOVER.

What a bargain.

Illiterate Slimey-Limeys who can barely write their own names, are pompously tossing away the life's work of authors. Yes, they'll sell EVERY Stephen King book, EVERY George R.R. Martin, EVERY J.K. Rowling, and literally THOUSANDS more. A novel somebody worked years and years to write is a blip on a DVD-R and being given away for tuppence.

What the hell do THEY care? These toffee-nosed pretentious self-entitled shits prance about pretending an idiotic caveat about the GNY protects them: "By purchasing this item you are agreeing to the following terms & conditions and agree that such conditions are reasonable and fair under English law. If you do not agree to these terms then please do not purchase this item. For some software supplied the individual installer is distributed globally under the terms of the GNU Public License, the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the Mozilla Public License...."

There's usually some ridiculous line about how the copyright and trademarks "belong to the owners." Meaning, THESE worthies are stealing and copying material but, they aren't claiming to OWN THE RIGHTS. Figure that one out.

Like the spoiled children they were at 8, these BRIT-SHITS will come up with any excuse to put their filthy English hands in the biscuit jar and TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE TAKE.

They are a DISGRACE TO THE UNITED KINGDOM, the birthplace of SHAKESPEARE.

Do they care that if somebody gets 50,000 eBooks, that person is set for life, and will NEVER buy a book? Will NEVER go to a library? Will NEVER support authors, publishers, bookstores, or institutes of learning? That for every book STOLE'D it's preventing one from being SOLD?

The Slimey-Limeys never list all the books they are stealing. They think it protects them against individual authors demanding a takedown. No, it doesn't.

It might stop assholes like Penguin/Random House but only because they aren't looking. The Penguins keep their beaks in the sand or up their asses.

Here's a typical Slimey-Limey who even puts his excuse for NOT listing the books in his AD:

It's a sad situation when Great Britain, where the ENGLISH LANGUAGE was born, is home to craven, stinking, disgusting, bloody-minded little SHITS who come up with inane excuses to steal from authors and publishers.

It's also pathetic that eBay.co.uk would require authors to officially jump through hoops and submit takedown requests because they don't think these obvious fraudulent listings are in violation of any law. "We don't know," they seem to say, "we've got the dirty DMCA knickers to hide in. We need somebody to tell us right for wrong. Isn't the GNU legitimate? We're surely not going to ask sellers to show us licensing, list the books they're stealing, or do anything to prevent US from getting a few pennies from these sales."

What IS this, Fagin and his band of little thieves? EBAY has major offices in England and a major website, and they act like a foul body-odorous FAGIN, presiding over a bunch of snots.

The Slimey-Limey Brigade. What's their excuse? The Sri Lankan cartel at least can claim to be a poor bunch of sods who eat flies and spiders and live in a country of pestilence and neglect. Is that what ENGLAND is like now? The excuse for stealing from authors is that some ponce needs a bit more jam on his scone, and helping to destroy the publishing world is his way of getting what he wants?

PAYPAL and EBAY reward the Sri Lanka Parasite who CHEATS THEM and AUTHORS

What happens when a Sri Lanka parasite sells a bootleg on EBAY? And is PAID through PAYPAL?

The dirty ingrate swine sends an e-mail that basically says: "FUCK EBAY, BUY DIRECT! I CAN GIVE YOU CHEAP ACCESS TO ANY BOOK YOU WANT, EVEN BOOKS PROTECTED BY VERO REPS WHO I KNOW WOULD TAKE DOWN MY ITEMS IF I POSTED THEM. HA HA."

Like so:

This seller, like all the Sri Lanka weasels, keeps getting a slap on the wrist while being allowed to USE PAYPAL (who aids and abets theft and fraud) and EBAY (ditto).

Today, June 8th, the weasel posted TWO MORE BOOTLEGS:

Since THIS website has mentioned the Sri Lanka cartel so often, this crafty load of coagulated urine decided to be "clever" and list his location as...ALABAMA.

Y'all, that's almost funny. ALMOST.

It's also ALMOST funny that when eBay does get around to shutting down an auction (should a fan or, more unlikely, the actual author or publisher) hit that "report item" button for illegal digital downloads, any negatives left about the item DISAPPEAR.

So if somebody writes: "WARNING: YOU ARE BUYING A BOOTLEG, AUTHOR/PUBLISHER GET NOTHING," that vanishes.

Bidders are TRICKED (by the seller, PAYPAL and EBAY) into thinking that "resell rights" were granted, and that the author and publisher have given permission for some parasite in Sri Lanka (er, ALABAMA) to sell mobi, epub or Kindle versions of a copyrighted best seller. For $2.99 or $3.99.

Just like the termites that can destroy a house, the ants that can take down an animal, or the bacteria that can send an entire dining room's worth of people to the hospital, BOOTLEGGERS DO DAMAGE.

THIS crud was stopped for bootlegging Paula Hawkins (112430048052) and James Patterson (112048537789) and Jodi Picault (112190297839) and has stolen from Danielle Steele (112279131911) Lisa Scottoline (112375643089) and Fredril Backman (112388044036) and C.J. Box (112384224351) and John Sanford (112389212182) and Steve Berry (112389337344) and C.J. Box again (112399433926) and C.J. Box again (112394394523) going back for MONTHS.

Stuff like THIS from APRIL 27th:

How many authors, how many warnings does EBAY need before a scumbag thief and liar and fraud is SUSPENDED?

When does PAYPAL decide their Terms of Service is in violation and they are aiding and abetting a thief, liar and fraud?

Isn't it convenient that EBAY AND PAYPAL GET A PERCENTAGE OF EVERY TRANSACTION, while authors are freelancers.

Isn't it convenient that EBAY and PAYPAL personnel get paid to glance at violations and shrug, while the freelancers do NOT get paid for reporting the abuse.

That's EBAY and PAYPAL's passive-aggressive way of saying, "FUCK OFF, copyright owners, freelancers, Mom & Pop bookstores, and even Amazon who sells the legit downloads, you keep on whining and complaining and MAYBE...MAYBE we'll suspend this banana-eater. MAYBE. We wear the frilly skirts of the DMCA, and hide behind them. And guess what, we don't have to tell YOU how many complaints it would take to get action."

In fact, NOTHING really prevents EBAY and PAYPAL from keeping this SENJUHASAR asshole around forever. His name is probably not Senjuhasar, as he uses several different eye-chart names for his e-mails and his PayPal and his many eBay accounts.

Hey Random House Penguins...you, in the fancy suits with your heads in the sand, or up your ass, are you contemplating a class action lawsuit? When is enough enough? Where are your spines? Penguins have spines. So do chickens. What's your problem? Too busy taking the two-hour lunch at Starbucks and pretending you publish literature about morality?

What's the answer here?

It's for EBAY to seriously and quickly handle "REPORT ITEM" complaints and VERO complaints.

Stop giving endless chances to POONI SCUMSUKKA or whatever his name is, and his cartel of babbling, grinning maggots.

STOP allowing sellers to say "Attention eBay, I have resell rights" when they DON'T.

STOP being so smug about DMCA laws and saying, "Oh, we're not gonna call a seller on it, or ask a seller to PROVE that there's a deal between himself and authors or publishers, or to ask that he put a copy of the CONTRACT in his ad."

Do something right.

You don't need chicken-shit $2.99 and $3.99 sales where YOU people end up losing a lot more.

As soon as a Sri Lankan creep makes a sale, it means the bidder will NEVER buy on eBay but instead will buy DIRECT.

And, PAYPAL, that means you aid and abet criminal activity.

The answer is to keep the crud OFF EBAY.

Copyright is not COPY WRONG. Authors should not be the niggers of the world on eBAY. Slavery is OVER.