FAST has started 17 auction piracy actions against individuals selling counterfeit software via eBay by the Software and Information Industry Association in the US.
“It does not take a rocket scientist to work out that software that should cost upwards of £100 that is being sold on an auction site for a few pounds is likely [...]

Olympus, a global leader in endoscopy solutions and a precision technology leader in award-winning consumer products, will donate 10 percent of the proceeds from its consumer products sold through the eBay Giving Works auction to C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition and the Entertainment Industry Foundation’s National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (EIF’s NCCRA), to benefit advocacy and [...]

A trivia-company owner from Austin, Texas, has purchased a corn flake shaped like the state of Illinois for $1,350 from two sisters from Virginia.
Kerr owns TriviaMania.com and said he will likely send someone to Virginia to pick up the flake by hand, so it won’t be damaged
“We’re starting a collection of pop culture and Americana [...]

A pocket watch found on the body of the last victim of the Titanic to be recovered has been put up for sale.
The item, which belonged to Dumfries-born steward Thomas Mullin, hopes to attract bidders on the internet auction website eBay.
The 20-year-old, who later moved to Southampton, was one of more than 1,500 victims of [...]

eBay Inc is to restructure its operations worldwide which will lead to a cut in global staffing levels.
“It’s less than 1% globally,” said eBay spokesperson, Sravanthi Agrawal, adding the main regions and countries affected by the online auctioneer’s job cuts were in North America, Belgium, Spain and Austria.
“We shared the news with the employees internally,” [...]

Press Release
The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) announced today that it is continuing its aggressive battle against software auction piracy by filing eight new lawsuits against sellers of pirated software on eBay. The new round is the second largest number of suits brought at one time by SIIA, following the nine lawsuits filed in [...]

Seven people have been charged in connection with a multi-million dollar international art forgery operation.
Four Americans, two Spaniards and an Italian are accused of producing and selling thousands of counterfeit prints around the world.
The fakes of artworks by artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Dali sold for up to $50,000 (£25,000) each.
Hundreds of people [...]