Sales of CD's on Ebay - Illegal copies
- From: Rod Neep <rod.neep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 00:14:04 +0000 (UTC)
In message <dfqf9b$550$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Robert Burns <madbadrob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I buy and sell books on a regular basis. Once they are scanned I have no need of them and sell them to recoup the cost or some of. It is for this reason I allow my CD's to be sold on. Also copying can be policed and fairly easily. If they are selling them on eBay a quick question asking if it is an original or a copy usually suffices, but if not a picture of the cd is next and thirdly buy a copy and see.
I doubt anyone can recreate ACDB's discs exactly.
Almost exactly. Enough to fool the public.
I have on my shelf many bootleg/pirated copies of Archive CD Books CDs. Some of them even reproducing the CD print face and the jewel case inserts perfectly. Only I would know that they were never made by Archive CD Books. I'm not going to tell you how I would know. ;-)
I bought them all on Ebay. I didn't even bother to use a different identity form me, or a different delivery address. The pillocks who produced them thought that they were safe.
I also have pirate copies of CDs of other publishers produced by the same pillocks. (Sorry, but its a good word for them).
Another one.... was a rip off of *another* publisher's census CDs (with the pillock's copyright notice).... but with a file on the CD that was the licence file from Archive CD Books! He included *my* licence file, but erm... forgot to change the words from "Archive CD Books". DUH!
That person, sorry... erm, pillock... was a councillor in a town in South Wales. Nice responsible position in society. Running a bootleg CD duplicating business in his house. Did we sue him? Nope. Not in that instance, as there were much more effective ways of dealing with the situation.
Another one, as well as duplicating copies of Archive CD Books, S&N, and Stepping Stones CDs, sold literally *hundreds* of a CD product by the Nottinghamshire Family History Society. His Ebay auctions for them always started with "I bought this CD for my research, but I no longer have a use for it, and so I am selling it on". (Heard that before?). The problem is, he sold *hundreds* of the same CD on Ebay using the same description! He's now been banned by Ebay, and dealt with.
As fast as we find (and dispose of) one illegal CD copier... more turn up on Ebay. There are some there now even. Selling genealogy CDs. One of them is even a well known "name" in some genealogy circles.
Rod -- Rod Neep Archive CD Books : http://www.archivecdbooks.org British-Genealogy: http://www.british-genealogy.com .
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