http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12374
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A federal court in New York sided with eBay in a lawsuit with upscale jeweler Tiffany & Co. Monday, mandating that eBay sellers can continue to peddle designer jewelry without the site policing listings for counterfeit items. According to U.S. District Judge Richard Sullivan’s 66-page ruling (PDF), eBay’s current efforts at enforcement – which primarily involves responding to takedown requests from copyright and trademark holders – are more than sufficient to keep the site out of liability for inadvertently brokering counterfeit goods.
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I thought this part was interesting, and was relevant to the discussion earlier about how much effort eBay should be putting into it:
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eBay has a team of 200 employees dedicated to rooting out counterfeit listings, and another 70 that liaise with law enforcement. Further, noted Sullivan, eBay’s automated enforcement software is so aggressive that it’s crashed the site’s computer systems on numerous occasions. Tiffany, on the other hand, spent substantially less time developing its arguments, which include a commissioned survey of goods that Sullivan found to be “flawed” and a paralegal hired to patrol the site for two days a week.
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270 employees.. that's what, $1 million dollars a month?