SRI LANKA is bootlegger land. Sri Lankans are THIEVES ON EBAY

"Yes," an eBay rep told me on the phone today, "we're taking measures on the book counterfeiting. We noticed a spike in this around last Christmas. It's hard to put in the filters to stop it, but it IS something we're aware of."

Are they aware that easily 80% of the book bootlegging on eBAY is from SRI LANKA?

Some of them are devious enough to pretend they are not. Like THIS dirty Sri Lankan prick:

You noticed that for ITEM LOCATION, the dirty prick put: KADAWATHA, UNITED STATES.

No, there is no such city or state in the United States. But a click of the user ID reveals the truth:

It would be easy enough for eBay to SERIOUSLY understand the gravity of this situation and take action.

Take action?

For a start, monitor anyone signing up from SRI LANKA. These Sri Lankan bastards get multiple identities and come back faster than roaches.

Here's another:

The Sri Lankan cartel routinely mentions in ads that bidders should not only check the 100 or so items they are offering, but contact them for MORE. After all, if it's a PDF file they can easily find one on an illegal torrent, download it, and sell it. OFF eBay. ANY author who has published a book that is in Kindle or Nook format is at risk of losing THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS.

What's going on over there in that God-forsaken dirt hole? When the religious fanatics aren't killing each other over whose imaginary friend is best, they have nothing better to do than torture and financially rape authors?

SRI LANKA is a nation of AUTHOR KILLERS.

EBAY claims to know all about this.

But "wait...wait..." they're being outsmarted by jerks who barely know how to urinate in a toilet?

There IS a very strong legal line between "we're just a venue" and OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE.

There IS a very strong legal line between shrugging about a problem and DOING NOTHING when the problem is reported.

When eBay personnel don't respond to a "Report Item" complaint, and when eBay phone support says "not to worry, I will see that this seller is suspended," and NOTHING HAPPENS, then we have reason for a lawsuit.

A MASSIVE LAWSUIT.

What is going on becomes willful misconduct.

The difference between "we're just a venue" and "we're not complying with DMCA's and we're not removing auctions even when they are obviously violating our Terms of Service...." is WILLFUL MISCONDUCT.

EBAY nees to use simple technology to red flag ANY auction that mentions EPUB, KINDLE, PDF, or idiot English-as-second-language catch phrases like "not real book, you get ebook by email."

Ebay must suspend ANY seller who parrots this phrase:

"Attention eBay Staff: I am an Authorized Reseller of this product & also the copyright holder or I have resale rights to this ebook or item. Full Resell Rights are Granted by the copyright owners to sell these E-books with Resell Rights or Master Resell Rights Granted."

This and similar babble come from these monkey-brains in Sri Lanka all the time. SRI LANKANS. BOOK THIEVES. Do they know ANYTHING ELSE?

They are a stupid bunch of people who are stealing from writers and publishers AND from Apple and Amazon, powerful companies who sell LEGITIMATE eBooks.

The abuse MUST STOP.

Here's another typical dirty Sri Lankan prick's auction:

Every day you'll find a dozen of these SRI LANKAN scumbags screwing authors and publishers.

They are taking money away from LEGITIMATE eBay sellers who have real books to sell.

People type in an author and are going to buy a used or new copy, and they see this BARGAIN for their Kindle or Nook: the ENTIRE COLLECTION of an AUTHOR for less than the price of one used hardcover!

There are thrift shops and charity shops who can't even get a book sale for ONE CENT plus $3.99 shipping, because of these SRI LANKAN BASTARDS.

Here's just a partial list of what authors THIS Sri Lankan bastard is fucking:

The epidemic extends to magazines as well.

. Terry Brooks: Shannara series eBook Collection 25+ books Fantasy epub mobi pdf

David Eddings Historical eBook Collection 27 Books

John Ringo ebook 20+ collection (epub & mobi )

John Norman Gor Series eBook Collection 30 books (epub,mobi)

Andrzej Sapkowski: The Witcher series eBook Collection (epub,mobi)

L.E. Modesitt Jr. Fantasy eBook Collection 50+ books (epub,mobi)

Catherine Coulter Thriller eBook Collection (epub,mobi)

Ben Bova eBook Science Fiction Fantasy Collection 100+ books (epub & mobi )

Daniel Silva ebook Collection 15 books(epub & mobi )

Maggie Shayne Fantasy 40+ books Ebook Collection (epub mobi)

and on and on and on.

ENTIRE collections of EVERY book for $5.99 to $9.99.

All of these Sri Lankan pests use GOOGLE CLOUDS to send an e-mail and then take the money.

Authors work very hard and most are not paid very well.

Eroding sales by taking all the best selling books does NOT help ANY author survive, nor does it help the libraries that are trying to entice people to come in and BORROW books for FREE.

The Sri Lankan banana-eaters could care less. They are selfish stupid and have no morality. They are the SCUM of the planet.

It should be a simple matter for eBay to RED FLAG auctions that have EPUB and MOBI in the title.

It should be a PRIORITY in the VERO program that once any author or author's rep files a DMCA on one of these Sri Lankan sewer rats, that seller is SUSPENDED.

It's WAY too easy for the bootleggers to come back.

EBAY needs to do MUCH better on this. AMAZON kindle and BARNES & NOBLE nook sales should be protected.

Libraries should be protected.

And eBay bidders should NOT be tricked into thinking a Sri Lankan dimwit peasant fly-covered louse is the "COPYRIGHT OWNER" or is "AUTHORIZED" to sell PDF files using a GOOGLE CLOUD.