Tiffany and eBay in Fight Over Fakes - New York Times
Tiffany should lose this battle. eBay is nothing more than a marketplace, a community of buyers and sellers. Any open marketplace has good and bad merchandise and both honest and dishonest sellers. The fact that Tiffany or any other 'brand' knock-offs are offered for sale is the way the world works.
A rational court will reject Tiffany's claims. If they want to get at the producers of knock-offs, they will have to follow the same path as the music industry by suing pirates, as slow and difficult as that may be. As for those who unknowingly buy bogus merchandise, caveat emptor is as good now as ever.
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