Software makers may sue eBay

Posted by Richard Koman @ July 25, 2008 @ 2:32 PM Tired of being “stiff-armed” by eBay, the Software and Information Industry Association is signaling its ready to sue over pirated software sales on the dominant online auction site, PC World reports. SIIA has offered eBay several suggestions for stemming the sale of pirated software on its site, but the auction giant has rejected most of those ideas, said Keith Kupferschmid, senior vice president of the SIIA’s antipiracy division. “We are at our last straw here,” Kupferschmid said Friday. “If eBay continues to stiff-arm us … then we will certainly consider litigation as an option.” Chief among the ideas: end one-day and buy-it-now auctions of software, which would “go a long way toward addressing most of our concerns,” Kupferschmid said. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act... [read full story]