Essays Tagged: "EBay v. Bidder's Edge"

Ebay vs Bidder's Edge

eBay sought to prevent Bidder's Edge from crawling its site, claiming that Bidder's Edge was going o ... day, thereby placing a burden on its systems. Rather than claim intellectual property infringement, eBay alleged that by searching items listed for sale Bidder's Edge was trespassing on its site. Bidd ... se of causing damage just by their undesired presence, they were actually doing damage by accessing eBay so much that they accounted for a significant percentage of eBay's bandwidth. It had nothing to ...

(2 pages) 125 0 3.7 Mar/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce

Dear sister: EBay case

is can surely land you in litigation. That's why I sent you the article about what happened between eBay and Bidder's Edge. I basically like your idea for the home-based business of 'playing cupid' fo ... idea of what and how you might carry out you ideas.1- Bidder's Edge was basically 'trespassing' on eBay's territory (server). Bidder's Edge was using an automated process to search various auction si ...

(2 pages) 117 0 4.6 Sep/2006

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Case Studies > E-commerce

Internet Trespass

for you if you do it properly. Though I think you should look at what happened to a company called Bidder's Edge. Here is a little information that I researched for you to consider.Bidder's Edge was ... t by its members. E-Bay however did not like what the company was doing and E-Bay sought to prevent Bidder's Edge from crawling its site, claiming that Bidder's Edge was going onto its site 100,000 ti ...

(2 pages) 57 0 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Trespass to Personal Property

p clear up the confusions for you.There is a difference between the activities of Bidder's Edge and eBay's normal customers. Typically, customers would search for products from eBay's website then, to ... rch for products from eBay's website then, to search another website, customers would have to leave eBay. Bidder's Edge however, searched products from eBay's website, as well as numerous other auctio ...

(2 pages) 24 0 0.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law