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What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 8:35 pm
by Doc Dixon

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 8:41 pm
by Joe Pecore
someone is selling a scanned in copy?

Or rather instructions on how to download a scanned in copy?

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 8:51 pm
by Gord
It appears he is selling instructions on how to get a scanned copy.
Good to see no one has bid yet ... yet.

Gord

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 9:09 pm
by JordanB
Wow. Awesome. Thanks for the link....

Just kidding.

What a d*****bag! $49.99 for instructions on how to print your own copy of a pirated work and he has 100% positive feedback. That's just double wrong.

Looks like he does this with other works as well.

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 9:11 pm
by Ray T. Stott
The way I read it is that he is offering access to an uploaded *pdf of a scanned copy, likely on some .ftp site that the "winner" may print out on his/her computer printer.

What the seller is also doing is offering to sell the buyer an opportunity to conspire in the theft of copyrighted material and become an accessory after the fact to the crime
;)


If this listing was reported to eBay, they likely would have given the complaint a nanosecond or two investigation before round filing it.

If someone was selling authentic snuff films on eBay and was reported for doing so; eBay would quash any actions against the seller based upon their decision that such films have redeeming social value and that the 1st Amendment protected the sale and eBay's revenues derived thereof.

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 9:37 pm
by Doc Dixon
FYI, he's also ripping off Larry Becker:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TopSecret-Report-Ge ... 240%3A1318

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 9:45 pm
by Ray T. Stott
Doc Dixon wrote:FYI, he's also ripping off Larry Becker:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TopSecret-Report-Ge ... 240%3A1318


Same criminal, same crime, different victim.
As all of the seller's recent auctions were private and, based upon the premise that some or all of them were stolen I.P., I recognize the user names of several high profile performers and magic dealers that have drunk from the poison well.

Professional Motto: Magicians diddling other magicians.

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 20th, 2009, 11:42 pm
by RobertAllen
I'm shocked, SHOCKED do you hear, to find that gambling is going on in this establishment...

"Your winnings Monsieur."

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 21st, 2009, 12:14 am
by Timothy Hyde
Doc Dixon wrote:FYI, he's also ripping off Larry Becker:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TopSecret-Report-Ge ... 240%3A1318


Larry has been made aware of this and has already filed a complaint with ebay.

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 21st, 2009, 1:42 am
by Ray T. Stott
Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?



RobertAllen wrote:I'm shocked, SHOCKED do you hear, to find that gambling is going on in this establishment...

"Your winnings Monsieur."

Thank you. Thank you very much. [Shouting, to casino patrons] Everybody out!

Re: What the #$% is this?

Posted: January 21st, 2009, 5:01 pm
by Ray T. Stott
Doc Dixon wrote:What the #$% is this?

http://cgi.ebay.com/TopSecret-Report-Ge ... 240%3A1318


[size:11pt]Sold!
And once again a seller is granted permission by eBay to give the finger to the intellectual property of others!

Funny...the only person who could ever receive consistent, practically instantaneous, "corrective action" from eBay VERO was Jeff Busby...evidently he had the ear of someone on the "inside."
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