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Originally Posted by michiganjfrog";p="
I'm sure it would work to an extent, and I'm all for screwing with eBay and helping people not get ripped off, but what I said in the last message was that eBay will allow you to contact the seller, if you are a bidder. So, fake account or not, you will find, as I did when I tried this, that they will block you from contacting other bidders, after so many efforts. Yes, you might be able to increase that if you have numerous accounts. But keep in mind that eBay knows your IP address. I dont know when and where they check it, but if you are not changing it between accounts and it raises a flag within their system....
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I'm a broadband user, and I'm theoretically connected 24/7 - but I DO take care to change my IP periodically by disconnecting briefly every 12 hours or so - and by making use of proxy servers.
The smartest anti-piracy move Microsoft ever made was shipping their products on 1.68megabyte floppies. To the non-technical, formatting a floppy disk (normally 1.44meg) to 1.68 was beyond their capabilities, so copying the disks which contained (for example) Office v4.3 was simply impossible. On the other hand, if you were technically competent (or knew someone who was!) copying the disks was simple. It's the same old story. "They" raise obstructions... others find a way around, under or through those obstructions. And "they" are constrained by the SAME budgetary considerations that motivate their actions.