Category: consumer protection
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Prenda is gone, but copyright trolling continues
A pattern of “brazen misconduct and relentless fraud” Like many, I took great satisfaction from reading that John L Steele had plead guilty and acknowledged his role in the “copyright trolling” scheme that…
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My letter to the Illinois AG re eBay’s Buyer Protection Program
The letter is mostly the same as my previous posts One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers and Are eBay sellers the ultimate customer, or the ultimate consumable? #brickscam…
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Are eBay sellers the ultimate customer, or the ultimate consumable? #brickscam
This post is a recap and extension on my post about eBay from a couple of days ago. I have learned a lot since that post, much of it from comments and…
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One More Sign World Is Shrinking – eBay is for Suckers
If you live in an economy where officials are corrupt, contracts are hard to enforce, and trust is scarce, everyday transactions are burdensome and time-consuming. If you don’t want to get scammed,…
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Some measured thoughts on patent trolls
This post expands on the remarks I made today at the Chicago Tech Roundtable meeting on Patent Trolls and Chicago’s Tech Community. The meeting was attended by a number of elected officials…
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New Jersey’s anti-Tesla laws and the car dealership racket
Over 70 economists and law professors have signed a letter opposing New Jersey’s direct automobile distribution ban. Why should you care? This ban is aimed at keeping the Tesla electric car out of New…