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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. Well that is what you get when you asked for it! by viggen · · Score: 0, Troll

    I cant blame Ebay, the users of various PtP networks who are sucking illegal stuff are to blame! They opened the box now live with it.

    regards