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Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates
If places like Ebay didn't make it easy to acquire knock offs, some of those people would save up and dish it out for the real thing.
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Yeah, but if these guys were claiming that everyone who bought a fake would have bought the real thing if they didn't buy a fake, forget it. Not sure if they used what I'll call "the MPAA/RIAA approach", but they seem to be pretty frivolous in their lawsuits, so it woudln't surprise me.
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In an earlier instance of LVMH trying to protect its brands online, a Paris court in 2005 ordered Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) to pay 200,000 euros (about US$260,000 at the time) to Louis Vuitton for breach of trademark. In that case, Google had to stop displaying advertisements for Louis Vuitton's rivals when Web users typed Vuitton's name into the search engine.
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Even bigger wow...
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Some companies have demanded that EBay forbid sales of even their legitimate products on the site because of alleged trademark infringement.
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Entirely ridiculous.