The same fate awaits most of the other common artefacts of the sort that are sometimes found on Internet-auction sites.
During the sting, SIIA officials scanned Web sites of eBay, Yahoo, Microsoft's MSNBC.com and smaller auction sites for software sales.
Shopgoodwill.com is one of the top auction sites on the Web today.
Owners of botnets also scour infected machines for information that can be sold on the underground auction sites and markets found online.
To get an edge many players turn to auction sites like Ebay to buy virtual weapons and such to insert into their game.
Some of the screen names--changed for this story--were real, however, and what InfoGlide's software "found" is all too common among on-line auction sites.
For instance, auction sites have ushered in a new breed of financial service companies that allows buyers and sellers to exchange payments electronically, person-to-person.
The settlements relate to college students who had been selling illegal copies of Microsoft's software through auction sites out of Sacramento, California and Chicago, Illinois.
The SIIA white paper says software sellers manipulate the rules of Internet auction sites to obtain e-mail addresses of bidders on software, creating a direct-marketing channel.
Service Metrics watched auction sites for three months around the clock, using data collection agents around the country running standard Netscape or IE browsers and a T1 connection.
"We encourage auction sites and business-to-business sites to do a better job in enforcing their recall protocols, " she adds--hardly a guarantee that defective products will be removed from online sites.
Ebay, the online auction house, took the extraordinary step of blocking out electronic inquiries from Auctionwatch.com, which aims to scour all auction sites and post prices in an overarching service.
The goal of such game-targeted malware, says McAfee researcher Igor Muttik, is to gain possession of virtual in-game property and currency and resell it on auction sites like Hong Kong-based IGE.com.
Unlike standard Internet performance, which slows to a crawl during business hours due to heavy traffic, auction sites download more quickly during weekday business hours and are slowest in the evening.
Even specialist fine art, antiques and collectibles auction sites like iGavel that conduct all their sales online still have a physical auction house where you can see and handle the works beforehand.
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The lawsuits against Chu and Kish are the first civil cases filed by SIIA against suspected pirates who find customers by sending e-mail to people who bid on software at Web auction sites.
The top five most-visited online retailers on Black Friday, in order, were Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, Target and Apple, comScore says (auction sites such as eBay were excluded from the list).
Adesa offered 3 million of those vehicles for sale at 83 auction sites in the U.S., Canada and Mexico and sold 2 million to dealers (the daily sales are open to licensed pros only).
The white paper provides resources for consumers to help them recognize illegitimate software offered on auction sites, and includes real examples of "stalking" e-mail messages sent directly to bidders after their addresses were gleaned from auctions.
There are other online auction sites, but they are much smaller. eBay's real competition, however, is increasingly coming from all over the internet, not least from people selling directly off their own websites and using online marketing methods, such as purchasing search terms on competing sites such as Google, to promote themselves.
Both eBay and Amazon.com have significant book-auction areas on their sites: eBay has 157, 039 books on auction and Amazon sells everything from first editions to dog-eared copies of L. Ron Hubbard.
Immediately after the land auction concluded, property agents reportedly scrambled to raise prices for flats located near the sites.
Since sites selling art online are unencumbered by the physical infrastructure of the traditional gallery or auction house, they can also make their commissions lower and the whole business of buying art much cheaper and more accessible.
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