So should the HUMANE SOCIETY.
Here's a lovely Latina in Argentina, a "fairy princess," who very kindly steals from rich authors and publishers, gives 10% to dogs and cats, and the rest to herself.
The header is typical of the eBook thieves. It obviously is offering a digital download (note: NO postage charge, despite this auction being from somebody in Argentina).
The cute part is that this seller will be donating 10% of her theft to charity. So leave her alone, she's doing GOOD WORK.
Like most of the conniving con-artists offering illegal downloads from Argentina, Russia, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Russia, etc. this one adds that caveat that eBay requests. You know, the one that pretends that the seller is a) the copyright owner or b) has re-sale rights and c) is aware digital downloads aren't legal so will be sending the item by mail...even though it's a digital file, and the feedback always mentions "it was easy to download, thanks."
What will end this abuse?
Authors and publishers need to check EBAY once a week and take a MINUTE to send offending auction numbers to vero@ebay.com.
It's the only sure way to defeat all loopholes.
If the author, publisher or other authorized person can state "under penalty of perjury" that the pretty little liar does NOT own copyright and is NOT authorized to re-sell pdf/mobi/epub/kindle files, the item is removed. The seller will usually be suspended if there are multiple complaints.
FOLLOW-UP, OCT 7th - This seller, reported to the charity involved, reported to several book publishers, is no longer offering illegal dupe eBooks. For the moment.
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