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Company Uses DMCA To Take Down Second-Hand Software
dreemteem writes "A judge Tuesday heard arguments in a dispute over software sales that could potentially have repercussions on the secondhand sale of virtually any copyrighted material. The suit was filed by Timothy Vernor, a seller on eBay, after Autodesk, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, asked eBay to remove some of its software products that Vernor had listed for sale there, and later to ban him from the site. Vernor had not illegally copied the software but was selling legitimate CDs of the products secondhand. For that reason, he argued, he was not infringing Autodesk's copyright. Autodesk countered that because it licenses the software, rather than selling it outright, a licensee does not have the right to resell its products."
There's legitimate software for sale on eBay?
News to me ...
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
I think the penalty for filing a frivilous claim like this should be 5 Slaps. The defendant in this case, Vernor, should be permitted to slap the CEO of AutoDesk redeamable at anytime with a 1 year expiration.
>> Ding Dong!
>> Who's there?
>> I'm here to claim my prize.
>> But I'm in the middel of dinner?
>> Slap!
>> I got 4 more I'll see you next week at your kid's little league game.
Hey, can I copy your comment to use as an example on the Wikipedia false dichotomy page? It's a really good one.
It's better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.
- E. Debs
As someone in another forum put it so eloquently for me when ebay recently banned a completely legal herbal product:
ebay's like a really bad and inefficient parent. We weren't really doing anything all that bad, but ebay came home with a bad attitude and probably a little drunk. 15 minutes of bitching about the Jews and now somehow we're grounded from buying and selling X on ebay.
And then a week later ebay wakes up and forgets its hangover, remembers yelling about something, but completely forgot about X. Randomly sometimes ebay will smack an auction for back sass, then all the other auctions hide and change go under assumed names because ebay's so drunk it cant figure out the simple euphemisms.
Buckle your ROFL belt, we're in for some LOLs.
I mean have you ever heard of a used book store?
Yeah, it's called a library.
You may have to write a new false trichotomy page to really let his comment shine.
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From Wikipedia: Date decided May 20th, 2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.
"Bet you twenty dollars he makes that shot again." "No way! You're on!" *hits instant replay*
Wait, murder is mandated by law? How many murders do I have to commit?
If fate makes you a motorcycle, you become a motorcycle.
Good luck with that montra
Quick! Montra is coming! We must wake Gojira!
Bow-ties are cool.
Someone called "couchslug" is rallying the people to arms. I'm waiting for "AngryPatriot" to come along and tell him to sit down, chill out, open a beer and watch some TV.