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  EBay defends online ticket resales

  EBay has defended its policies on the reselling of event tickets on its site following the mass posting of AC/DC tickets on its site just hours after the tickets went on sale, and promptly sold out, yesterday.

  By Tim Lohman | 26 May, 2009 15:46

  Tags: acdc, ebay, e-commerce, music, scalping, Ticketek

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  Ticketek Thunderstruck by AC/DC ticket sales demand

  Online ticket sales site Ticketek was this morning paralysed by demand for tickets to AC/DC’s Black Ice Australian tour, which went on sale this morning at 9am.

  By Tim Lohman | 25 May, 2009 10:42

  Tags: ac/dc, e-commerce, infrastructure management, Ticketek, twitter

• New obscenity charges raise questions in Internet Age

  A long-standing court test using community standards to determine whether adult content is criminally obscene has been a potential problem area for the US pornography industry. But a debate that's been largely abstract for years has recently changed as the US Department of Justice successfully prosecuted two Web site operators for obscenity.

  By Grant Gross | 10 October, 2008 09:19

  Tags: e-commerce, government regulation

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  Minding Online Store a Case of 'Not My Job'

  Last month, a federal judge ruled that eBay had fulfilled its obligations to investigate and control users who were trying to use its Web site to sell counterfeit Tiffany goods -- a decision that put the onus on Tiffany to monitor eBay's site itself.

  By Linda Rosencrance | 21 August, 2008 12:09

  Tags: ebay, e-commerce