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Ebay vs. Musician

Posted by michael on from the slingstones-for-sale-cheap dept.

evenprime writes "Ebay's Verified Rights Owner Program was designed to make sure the auction site doesn't let people sell things that violate copyright laws. Unfortunately, over-zealous ebay employees have been causing problems for independent musicians. George Ziemann has a detailed account of the difficulties he's faced when trying to sell copies of his CD on the auction site. Apparently ebay kept pulling his ads simply because he was selling a product recorded to CD-R! Ebay employees assume that all audio recordings on CD-R are the result of piracy, despite the fact that many indie bands burn their own music to CD-R to sell it. Wired has a nice summary of this story."

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  1. Re:It's Ironic by jafuser · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    How is that IRONIC? Did Alanis Morresette teach you the English language or something?

    I've always wondered if she made that song deliberately containing no irony, therefore making the song itself ironic; or if she had no idea what she was doing, and was actually entirely mistaken, but still making the whole thing ironic, which makes the entire situation meta-ironic.

    Ugh.. it's still too early in the morning...

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  2. I'm curious as to why.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No one reads their damn email these days!!

    I can't count the number of times I send someone a question about something and I never hear a response back from them. Like it vanished into thin air.

    Or sometimes I'll email someone and ask them 2 or 3 questions (like this guy did w/ ebay) and they'll read the first one, respond, and ignore everything else I say.

    This happens with big businesses like ebay, and personal communications with people.

  3. A discourse from the holy books of all knowledge by Thud457 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Owner: Take this object, but beware it carries a terrible curse!
    Homer: [worried] Ooooh, that's bad.
    Owner: But it comes with a free Frogurt!
    Homer: [relieved] That's good.
    Owner: The Frogurt is also cursed.
    Homer: [worried] That's bad.
    Owner: But you get your choice of topping!
    Homer: [relieved] That's good.
    Owner: The toppings contains Potassium Benzoate.
    Homer: [stares]
    Owner: That's bad.

    ---- The book of Homer, 9F04

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