eBay Patent Wars: Judge Wonders about Design Workaround

JAV · Occasional Poster

eBay Patent Wars: Judge Wonders about Design Workaround

IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

They still have serious security problems from 2 years ago, and STILL haven't done a thing to resolve the issues. They think it is an either OR situation, either pay a hugh settlement OR fix the problem. They don't get that it is BOTH. Pay your fines AND fix your problems. E-bay is scam central now. A form of Russian Roulette for sellers. Who wants to be the next victim?

anonymous · Top Poster

That situation is tantamount to a thief stealing your car, being arrested and found guilty, then still being allowed to keep and use the vehicle. Of course, that analogy does not include the monetary loses suffered by the patent holder.

I would not be surprised to see more news reports/articles starting to describe ebay as "convicted thief", "multiple lawsuit defendant", and other such accurate descriptors.

Icey, yes over at the CERT website, you will find ebay has a cross-scripting error which has gone not only unrepaired for nearly TWO YEARS, but ebay has not even seen fit to respond or publicly address the flaw whatsoever.
(other than to continually blame it's users for account hijackings which arose as a direct result of the flaw.)

IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

anonymous wrote:

That situation is tantamount to a thief stealing your car, being arrested and found guilty, then still being allowed to keep and use the vehicle.

That is a perfect analogy! The really funny thing is, thieves ARE stealing our cars. And they are SELLING them on E-bay motors. Priceless.

So all of you car-jack victims, after you thumb home from the police station, don't forget to go to e-bay motors to find out how much your car is worth.

anonymous · Top Poster

I wonder how much the lack of proper policies/actions on the part of sleazy online auction giants and shady, fly-by-night, rip-off online payment services are unnecessarly adding to the burden/workload of our nation's law enforcement agencies and judicial systems?

-- Edited by anonymous at 15:06, 2006-12-30

IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

If you listen to the pros, our law enforcement agencies have nothing better to do but go after everyone who gets free stuff from the bay.

anonymous · Top Poster

That is one of SLEAZebays philosophies isn't it?

"Shirk off your responsibilty on or shift the blame to anyone else you can."

Along with "Lie, Cheat, and Steal"

"SLEAZebay, the world's biggest online freeloader and convicted thief, still in corporate denial years later" could be part of their new slogan

-- Edited by anonymous at 17:28, 2006-12-30

IceBlueEyes · Top Poster

E-BAY - STILL IN CORPORATE DENIAL

It should be in their next commercial.

anonymous · Top Poster

I think you should be in it.

Have your people contact my people.

We'll do lunch.