<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Frodo @ Jan 30 2007, 11:34 PM) [snapback]277203[/snapback]</div>
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It seems basically that this guy can do what ever he wants then.
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Even if PayPal has a strict policy and by this strict general terms of agreement (as allready posted by Abi79 somewhere above), they are not the authorities. Adressed by someone with accusations against any of their customers they could just say:
"
OK sounds pretty believable, the games might be stolen, the reviews as well. But we do not understand a heck about this copyright thingy, we are financial service providers and we do not want to occupy any of our employees with investigations about this because they are sleeping tightly and it costs us a lot to wake them up. Do you guys have any idea how many accusations like that are sent to us by people who menacely try to ruin their neigbours?"
Just to play the
advocatus diaboli 
I think one way to put a little pressure on PayPal would be an accusation of an
other financial service provider (the foe of your foe is your friend) of supporting illegal activities. So PayPal might need to investigate.
The financial calculation for the ESA is a bit different (roughly estimated):
If this guy continues their members will lose perhaps $500 of sales each year. If they sue this guy it will cost them at least $5000. Even if they win, which is not garantueed, they cannot be sure to get any money from this guy back. He could just hide it somewhere or give everything away to his girlfriend and declare to own absolutly nothing. So shutting down his website will perhaps armortize in 10 years. Unless his girlfriend/ uncle/ stepbrother/ whatsoever opens a new one.
If there were more leechers sites the situation could be different... (sounds awfull!) :wallbash:
The only legal chance I see is of course accusing him to the authorities (this does not cost anything), but it depends from the legal situation in the Czech. Rep.: If commercial use of copyright violations is
criminal in czech, we are in, if it is only
illegal, it won't be that easy. Having this leecher punished only with a $200 fine, PayPal cannot refuse to ban him.
If there are no technical or legal means, what about propaganda? I read some very pointed texts in this thread, containing some very strong metaphors (Maybe Himmler could become a bit like Goebbels...
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