eBayer Stealing Images And Content
Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:40 am
For the last few months, I've been going round and round with eBay because a seller uses our reviews to promote his items. I'm not talking about a link or a quote either. The guy copies and pastes the entire thing. To make matters worse, he uses our images and links to our server. Here's an example:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8719282206
Even though this obviously uses our copywritten text and images, eBay says that "there is not a violation of eBay's policies
as per our guidelines".
We're not the only one he's doing this to either. He's doing this to Extreme Mhz and others:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5207899125
So what are my options? Block people from linking to our images? (we really should have done this long ago.. same goes with our KProbe mirrors). Replace the images in his auction with those that DO violate eBay's policies? Thoughts?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 8719282206
Even though this obviously uses our copywritten text and images, eBay says that "there is not a violation of eBay's policies
as per our guidelines".
We're not the only one he's doing this to either. He's doing this to Extreme Mhz and others:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 5207899125
So what are my options? Block people from linking to our images? (we really should have done this long ago.. same goes with our KProbe mirrors). Replace the images in his auction with those that DO violate eBay's policies? Thoughts?