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That may be extreme, but as it is, the DMCA is too "automatic;" it encourages people to file takedown notices because the consequences for shutting someone down when they're not harming you are insignificant in practice.
This time I had some luck since eBay picked on a fake login page I displayed after I had asked eBay on several occasions to get the page remove and from what I can understand they are upset about the eBay log at the top of the pages but it’s not like the site trying to compete against eBay and provides hundreds of links back to eBay.
The reason I present copies of pages is because eBay often remove pages where a dispute is involved so just how can anyone present case of wide scale fraud when it is becoming impossible to present evidence without have a gag order place on your host.
Yes I understand the reason for the DCMA but using it’s powers in this manor strikes at the heart of democracy and is allowing eBay to do as it pleases and in some cases it is not possible to remove the logo as some of the pages displayed on the site have been hijacked by script injection using hexadecimal code to overwrite the original page and therefore making it all but impossible to remove the eBay tm logo and no I don’t have a zillion$ to get involved with eBays lawyers but I do have freedom of speech so if that involves moving the site offshore then that is what I will do
Yes it’s time both the FBI and the UK police looked at eBuster after he was told it’s a civil matter by the police when a fraudster using eight separate ebay accounts is allowed to sell death traps and call them cars.
Seems like it’s one law for corporations and one law for us but still truth is not denied so easily or did I forget the right to trial by a jury is a thing of the past in the UK.