"We believe that this ruling represents a loss not only for us but for
consumers and small businesses selling online, therefore we will
appeal," eBay says in it's official statement. "It is clear that eBay has become a focal
point for certain brand owners' desire to exact ever greater control
over e-commerce. We view these decisions as a step backward for the
consumers and businesses whom we empower every day."
These comments come in the wake of a landmark ruling by French courts. Fines leveed against eBay for roughly $63 million in a lawsuit brought by French luxury-goods maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA.
The case was brought over the sale of counterfeit items using brands owned by LVMH. but of equal or greater significance is the plaintiffs assertion that even the sale of authentic items via eBay violated their authorized sales networks.
This goes to a fundamental principle of a free market. My right to sell stuff I own. When I buy a legitimate hand bag from a legitimate dealer it's mine, take your brand name and stick it in your ass, I own the bag, I payed for it I should be able to sell it when and where I want to.
The internet empowers people in so many ways. Knowledge and information is just part of the equation. People all over the world are waking up to the fact that they have the power of the pocket book. The powers that be are making there moves to take this away.
Who is surprised that this latest blow to global liberty comes from the French? While the east oppresses empowerment of the people by crushing the net, the west begins it's oppression in the courts in earnest.
Who cares about eBay I want my right to sell my stuff, I have to much as it is.
consumers and small businesses selling online, therefore we will
appeal," eBay says in it's official statement. "It is clear that eBay has become a focal
point for certain brand owners' desire to exact ever greater control
over e-commerce. We view these decisions as a step backward for the
consumers and businesses whom we empower every day."
These comments come in the wake of a landmark ruling by French courts. Fines leveed against eBay for roughly $63 million in a lawsuit brought by French luxury-goods maker LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA.
The case was brought over the sale of counterfeit items using brands owned by LVMH. but of equal or greater significance is the plaintiffs assertion that even the sale of authentic items via eBay violated their authorized sales networks.
This goes to a fundamental principle of a free market. My right to sell stuff I own. When I buy a legitimate hand bag from a legitimate dealer it's mine, take your brand name and stick it in your ass, I own the bag, I payed for it I should be able to sell it when and where I want to.
The internet empowers people in so many ways. Knowledge and information is just part of the equation. People all over the world are waking up to the fact that they have the power of the pocket book. The powers that be are making there moves to take this away.
Who is surprised that this latest blow to global liberty comes from the French? While the east oppresses empowerment of the people by crushing the net, the west begins it's oppression in the courts in earnest.
Who cares about eBay I want my right to sell my stuff, I have to much as it is.
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