{"id":28,"date":"2004-06-14T03:39:07","date_gmt":"2004-06-14T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=28"},"modified":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T03:04:18","slug":"piracy-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/2004\/06\/14\/piracy-on-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Piracy on ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fun thing to do:<\/p>\n<p>Try a search for &#8220;photoshop&#8221; on ebay.<\/p>\n<p>I was looking to see whether it was a realistic way to buy a copy but it really isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the auctions are fradulent or offering pirated software. There are the usual collection of &#8220;bid and get information on where to buy for \u00c2\u00a320&#8221; kind of auctions. Then there are the ones selling manuals or something but appearing initally to be the real product.<\/p>\n<p>Finally there are the pirates who are selling copies of software in various formats, sometimes with a disclaimer that the customer &#8220;should only buy if they already own a copy of photoshop&#8221;. Then why bid on the auction?<\/p>\n<p>Overall not impressive. I feel sorry for the few genuine sellers who are offering boxed and sealed copies or older versions. They are being honest, most of the sellers are not.<\/p>\n<p>Ebay really needs to clean up its auctions because the current situation is getting really bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fun thing to do: Try a search for &#8220;photoshop&#8221; on ebay. I was looking to see whether it was a realistic way to buy a copy but it really isn&#8217;t. Most of the auctions are fradulent or offering pirated software. There are the usual collection of &#8220;bid and get information on where to buy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-internet-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1649,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.malcolmhardie.com\/weblogs\/angus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}