The illiterate bootlegger states "buyer's" (sic) will get an "external link" for the download. Or the ebook will be sent as an email attachment. Ebay actually does not allow "digital delivery" because it's obviously pirated. You get digital delivery via Amazon and iTunes. Every eBay ad has a "report item" hot link.
BUT...it would be easier and more convenient if Ebay a) blocked this crap by having some employees checking for it, or b) having enough employees that "report item" actually works. Usually it doesn't, and if you literally call eBay on it, they'll say, "Gee, we get SO many complaints and we don't have enough people to handle it. Report it again. And again." Ebay also has a warning that if you report an auction over again, it will drop the request to the bottom of the queue.
So what IS the problem here? EBAY is poor? It makes BILLIONS. It's one of the biggest and richest sites on the Internet.
You notice the excuse from rich Sir Tim Berners-Lee? "Internet freedom" is at stake. FREEDOM is another word for PIRACY?
The jerk who runs Wikipedia is another who screams that any Internet law is an attack on FREEDOM. That's because Wikipedia would have to pay for the photos they use, and not jump up and down shrieking "FAIR USE." They'd have to make sure to quote only a LEGAL amount from copyrighted material. Likewise, all the parasite DECIDER and NEWSER sites that re-write copyrighted news, and play fancy free with the photos would have to give up some of their profits. The Great God Google, which owns Blogspot and YouTube, wouldn't be able to ignore the rampant abuses on those sites, or with their search engine.
Right now, YouTUBE doesn't have to ask its uploaders if they have PERMISSION for ANYTHING. In fact, if you tried to report somebody who used a "Fair Use" excuse, YouTube would ignore you. At best, you'd get a nasty robot-note saying that if you are the copyright owner (not just an intellectual property rights owner, which they ignore), and you jump through all their hoops, fill out all their forms, and PROVE that you do own copyright and that your phone number and email is valid, they might remove the offending item.
On YouTube people upload entire songs, entire albums, entire TV shows, or their favorite moments from any TV show or sporting event, and pretend it's "Fair Use" under an obscure law that doesn't apply:
"Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."
Like so:
NO. "Fair use" is using a quote or a clip in a legitimate REVIEW, not just uploading the entire song, or putting together a bunch of clips with NO review or narration. But under the anemic laws, which the Eurotrash just decided not to strengthen, bit powerful rich YouTube is not only NOT obligated to check the site for such obnoxious abuse...they don't even have to respond when it's pointed out. As far as they're concerned, if "Futurama" doesn't send in a DMCA complaint, this IS "fair use." It's FREEDOM to STEAL.
As Puzo.Org, one of the long-running piracy forums declares as a motto: "BECAUSE WE LIKE FREE." Har har har. Pirate Bay, still running, loved to thumb their noses at copyright owners and bully even indie artists who BEGGED them, "Please don't steal my stuff, I'm barely breaking even."
Bloggers (almost all of them using GOOGLE's "Blogspot" for FREEEE) not only upload entire discographies, THEY expect payment. They either shout "Donate by using my PAYPAL TIP JAR" or they use evil foreign-run servers like RAPIDGATOR, who ignore takedown requests. Kim Dotcom, as criminal as he is, at least would remove a link if a DMCA was sent to his Megaupload company.
Julia Reda, a spoiled brat of a twat, actually is a member of a "Pirate Party" in Germany. Yes, the old favorites who attacked the entire world TWICE in the 20th Century, don't mind if a "Pirate Party" exists. You think an "Anti-Jew Party" is far behind? Or that it won't spring up in Sweden or France or other countries weak on ANY type of rights, whether copyright or human rights?
One thing that the pirates all have in common is that they have shit for brains and are not creative. Julia Reda might not too amused if she tried to make a living as a writer, and aside from the long odds and the huge competition, people were giving away her work. She writes a book or a song, and people go to a shoutbox on a blog, or a forum and say "Hey, give me Julia Reda's book. Best regards! I love SHARING."
Another aspect of FREEDOM as defined by the Internet, is the FREEDOM to indulge in revenge porn, Photoshop fakery and forgery. Ebay, for example, and thanks to this MEP bunch refusing to act, can still ignore auctions like this:
Yes, a fake nude on Taylor Swift with a forged signature. The seller has dozens upon dozens of them. Har har. Get some easy money, which eBay shares (making themselves PIMPS) and morality goes right down the toilet. Current Internet law only requires eBay to remove this item if Taylor Swift sends a DMCA. A strange twist is that while eBay actually has rules against selling KKK or Nazi "memorabilia," and bans sellers from selling pictures of tortured animals or an autopsy photo...women are not protected against degrading fakery. ANY woman's photos can turn up on eBay's secret "adults only" section being hawked as "I found this" or "great spread shot of some blonde" or whatever...with NO signed model release of age or consent.
This happens to be against Federal Law. Pornographers have to state on the DVD or the magazine that they have a model release on file. EBAY doesn't care about Federal Law. That's how powerful the Internet hot shots are...EBAY....GOOGLE...AMAZON...WIKIPEDIA...
People applaud Julian Assange as if he's some kind of Robin Hood when all he is, is a vainglorious criminal making money off invasion of privacy and theft. He's also an accused rapist. He steered clear of Putin and exploited America, because he knew he could get away with it. If he stole secrets from Putin, he'd get a poisoned banana shoved down his throat at the Ecuador Embassy. But if he rips off European countries or America, that's fine.
America has already failed to stop piracy via new legislation. Sen. Charles Schumer and a few others put together PIPA, which was supposed to address the piracy and copyright problem. But the cries went up of "Copyright is COPY WRONG," and "The government is interfering with FREEDOM OF SPEECH." Google lobbied mightily to make sure the bill dropped dead.
People are grumbling today that Trump is allowing Putin to do anything and everything, because Trump was bailed out by the Russians, and the Russians helped sabotage the election in his favor. The Russians are happy to screw the economy of America and England by having Communist websites hosting download files. There are supposedly law-abiding and patriotic ADULTS in England and America who cheer "Thank GOD for the Russians" when they get a free Neil Young discography off a Croatian blog and a Ukrainian download company that loads things with spyware. One day they might get upset when all their private information turns up in Russia somewhere and their bank accounts are emptied. Then they'll demand that their government reimburse them.
Yes, artists who support FREEDOM and sing about it, like Neil Young, and artists who simply believe in the morality of copyright and fairness (including the late Prince, and the cranky Gene Simmons) don't appreciate that some hoodlums in Croatia are stealing and profiting and being praised. You'd think that there would be no question that blocking blogs or servers that do nothing but PIRATE material would be a GOOD thing, but monsters like Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia says NO. He is opposed to anything that might interfere with HIS huge profits.
Trump squeezed into office (he lost the popular vote) by smugly announcing he'd "Drain the Swamp" of criminals and space-wasters. So he put all of them in his cabinet, and dropped them after various glaring mistakes of common sense and morality. So he brought in more. He has "ambassadors" in Twilight Zone countries like Croatia who are supposed to use diplomacy to deal with problems. Instead, the Ambassador of Croatia stuffs his face, plays golf, and Tweets to about a half-dozen people about his grand-daughter:
Where is he when it comes to contacting the Croatian versions of Blogspot and saying, "Do us a favor...we give you SO much in foreign aid...the least you can do is honor DMCA requests and remove pirated material." Nah.
People talk about all the cyberbullying that goes on. All the slander. All the flaunting of common sense on Twitter and Facebook. The way everyone throws photos around and "shares" movies, books, songs, games and apps. People talk. Nothing gets done. The moron MEPs made sure that the step forward was kicked back. You wonder how many of those fine, fine politicians download illegally every day, and sit around marveling at how their kids get so much stuff FREE. Getting shit for FREE is FREEDOM OF SPEECH to them?
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