Worse than the Al Franken bootleg job, which is over 50 illegal copies sold, THIS PARASITE has sold over 500 copies of some book titles. THAT'S GRAND LARCENY. Authors are lucky to get $2 profit per book. THIS PRICK gets $8.00 and only has to toss a dollar to co-conspirators EBAY and PAYPAL. Yes, EBAY and PAYPAL aid and abet theft.
They take the big fat Nazi Sct. Schultz approach:"We know nnnnnothing! And we are NOT going to ask."
This auction doesn't say "I am sending you a bootleg." It doesn't say "You will get a download link." It MERELY tells you that you'll get a digital copy of a book that is ONLY available, LEGALLY, from outfits like Amazon and Barnes & Noble. There's NO way over 100 best-sellers have been licensed to this thief.
Is eBay going to contact the thief and ask to see documentation? Hell no. Under the DMCA laws of the land, they are not required to do anything but respond to a copyright owner's complaint. THEN they'll remove the auction and let the seller abuse the other 100 sellers. Meaning, if Al Franken sends a VeRO (verified rights owner) complaint in, they'll say, "OK, Senator, but this doesn't prove that the seller doesn't have permission from the other 100 authors, and WE WON'T ASK.
WHO are some of the other authors?
The new RUTH WARE is out...and BOOTLEGGED by this crud. Authors need to join the VERO program. I'm with VERO. Publishers need to understand how serious EBAY bootlegging is. IT'S SERIOUS. Dozens of copies that could've been SOLD are being STOLE'D. What's the message, Simon and Shyster, that you have money to waste? That tossing $250,000 to Milo was not a freak incident, but an example of a rich fat-cat publisher not being concerned with piracy or morality? WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS:
How do you allow DOZENS of bootlegs to interfere with actual sales, when in ONE MINUTE this auction could be stopped?
Where are the bright, professional, AUTHORS AND PUBLISHERS to get together and deputize someone to check a list like this, and shut it ALL down on behalf of ALL publishers? The RIAA does it on behalf of ALL record labels. Why are PUBLISHERS being so FUCKING STUPID? WHY?
Yes, ridiculous moronic are the people at BANTAM, DOUBLEDAY, DELL, RANDOM HOUSE, and the other major publishing offices who sit back and let ONE prick steal ALL their books. ONE HUNDRED TITLES at the moment.
What needs to be done, after Al has worked to help good ol' hip Bernie Sanders push a bill through, is to get some senators to draft one that REMOVES THE LOOPHOLE that EBAY and PAYPAL have been using.
When a VERO complaint comes in, that should be the red flag that makes EBAY and PAYPAL request more documentation from the seller on the rest of the items being sold. As in: "You were caught copying Al Franken's book. We have good reason to believe you don't have permission to sell Rowling or Martin or the others. SHOW US YOUR LICENSING."
Allowing a big bullying Internet site like EBAY to prosper at the literal expense of copyright owners is UNACCEPTABLE.
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