eBay is being sued for £30 million over its seeming willingness to let its users sell designer fakes.
A Paris court has ordered eBay to pay up. Louis Vuitton, its sister company Christian Dior plus four of its perfume brands - Dior, Guerlain, Givenchy and Kenzo - sued the website for "culpable negligence".
Massive news for the industry which will need to completely change the way it runs - with Amazon also being effected to a lesser extent. If eBay is going to tackle this problem, it will need to install security software that can vet for illegal sellers - and even then, it's not guaranteed.
Moreover, this story has the potential to severely damage the reputation of Internet selling... watch this space
http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1320396,00.html
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