eBay court cases
This one passed me by, but after reading eBay's response, I just had to post up about it, even though it happened over a month ago!
Louis Vuitton (LVMH) was successful in their case against eBay where they accused them of selling fake goods. Typically, eBay's defense was that they didn't handle the products.
eBay also vowed to lodge an appeal and gave a completely ridiculous statement afterwards that really does some up their attitudes towards the fake products that they promote on their site.
From the Yahoo! news page:
"This decision is not based on combating counterfeit material. It is based on LVMH's desire to protect its commercial practices and exclude competition," said a spokeswoman for eBay in Paris.
"This is being done at the expense of the consumers and sellers to whom eBay is always offering opportunities," she added.
Excuse me? Being fined for selling fake products is going to be to the detriment of your consumers? LV are trying to stop competition? What competition?! If eBay considers counterfeiting to be competition, then they shouldn't really be stopping people from selling pirated software and media, because they're also just competition for the media industry.
